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Geography of Greenland |
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Geography of Greenland will provide you with all useful information on the location, area covered, climate and all other information related to the geography of this island.
Greenland is the largest non-continental island of the world. It is located at the meeting point of Atlantic and Arctic ocean. This fascinating island is mostly covered by ice and is surrounded by cold ocean currents. Because of this cold ocean currents the coasts of the island remain cold always. Moreover, the cold radiation from the inland ice adds to the coolness of the island. Greenland exhibits arctic climate.
The geography of Greenland tells that around 85 percent of the total area of Greenland is decked with ice caps. The ice caps extends an area of 2500 km from North to South and 1,000 km from East to West. The total area of Greenland covered by ice caps is approximately 1,833,900 square kilometer.
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To the southeast of Greenland lies Atlantic Ocean; Greenland Sea lies to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north and Baffin Bay to the west.
The sparse population of Greenland mainly centers on the ice-free coast. The Western coast is the home of major settlements. The northeastern territory of Greenland houses the largest national park of the world, Northeast Greenland National Park.
The air in the Peary Land area is very dry and as a result of this no ice is produced in this area and this is why Peary Land is not covered buy any ice sheet. The central part of Greenland is thickly covered with ice. Because of the heavy weight in this area, a basin has been created in the depression region of the central land area. This basin lies much below the surrounding ocean level.
According to the geography of Greenland the depth of the ice sheet in the central area can be as much as 3 km. This also represents approximately 10 percent of the total fresh water reserves of the whole world.
Due to global warming if the ice of Greenland melts then this would rise the level of world’s oceans to a considerable extent.
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