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1263: Greenland then becomes crown dependency of Norway. 1355: In 1355 union king Magnus IV of Sweden and Norway (Magnus VII of Norway; The Swedish king had been crowned king of Norway through birthright) sent a ship (or ships) to Greenland to inspect its Western and Eastern Settlements. Sailors found settlements entirely Norse and Christian.
Europeans probably became aware of Greenland's existence in the late 9th century, after Gunnbjörn Ulfsson, while sailing from Norway to Iceland, was blown off course by a storm and sighted some islands off Greenland. During the 980s explorers led by Erik the Red set out from Iceland and reached the southwest coast of Greenland.
Greenland is the world's largest non-continental island [84] and the third largest area in North America after Canada and the United States. [85] It is between latitudes 59° and 83°N , and longitudes 11° and 74°W .
Greenland, which had been settled by the Norsemen in the 980s, [1] submitted to Norwegian rule in 1261. [2] Denmark and Sweden entered the Kalmar Union with Norway in 1397 under the Queen of Norway, and Norway's overseas territories including Greenland later became subject to the king in Copenhagen. [3]
Erik the Red's Land (Norwegian: Eirik Raudes Land) was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse or Viking settlements in Greenland in the 10th century.
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Greenland, the world’s largest island, sits between the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean, and is closer to New York than it is to Copenhagen. ... It has been under Denmark’s control since ...
Neither Greenland nor Puerto Rico are sovereign countries. Indonesia is the world's largest island country by area (1,904,569 km 2 ), and by total number of islands (17,504 islands). [ 4 ] It is also the world's most populous island country, with a population of over 270 million (the fourth most populous country in the world, after India ...