Greenland Description

Greenland (local name - Kalaallit Nunaat) - the biggest island of the Earth, located to the north-east of the mainland of North America. Business Card Greenland - aurora (the so-called "Aurora Borealis"), which you can watch almost all year round. Polar mirages ( "Fata Morgana"), which in these high latitudes of the show is sometimes so fantastic pictures of majestic sailing ships or cities surrounded by lush greenery that unsophisticated tourists literally "eyes climb on his forehead."

Greenland (local name - Kalaallit Nunaat) - the biggest island of the Earth, located to the north-east of the mainland of North America. By the Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean. More than three-quarters of the country is covered by glaciers. The colossal weight of ice causes the crust to sink the middle part of the country, forming a concave basin, which reaches a depth of 360 meters below sea level. For the settlements are suitable only for coastal areas in many places, jagged fjords. The highest mountains are located off the east coast. Mountain trout north of Anmassalika in south-eastern Greenland reaches a height of 3360 meters, the highest point - Mount Gunnbern (3700 m) lies in the northern part of the country. The length of the island from north to south - 2690 km, the greatest width - 1300 km. Total area - 2176 sq.. km.

Administrative center - Nuuk (Godthab, translated from the Danish "Cape"). The city is the oldest in Greenland, built by the Danish missionary Hans Edzhed in 1728, after he left his first settlement on the Island of Hope in the Davis Strait. The city is also the largest in Greenland with about 13 500 inhabitants.