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Greenland Native name: Grønland Kalaallit Nunaat Outline map of Greenland with ice sheet depths. (Much of the area in green has permanent snow cover, but less than 10m (33ft) thick.) Geography Location Between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean Coordinates 64°10′N 51°43′W / 64.167°N 51.717°W / 64.167; -51.717 Area 2,166,086 km 2 (836,330 sq mi) Area rank 1st ...
The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of 1.67 km (1.0 mi) thick and over 3 km (1.9 mi) thick at its maximum. [ 2 ] It is almost 2,900 kilometres (1,800 mi) long in a north–south direction, with a maximum width of 1,100 kilometres (680 mi) at a latitude of 77°N , near ...
As with the ice loss elsewhere, the melting of Greenland contributes to sea level rise. Between 2012 and 2017, this melting added an average of 0.68 mm per year, [113] equal to 37% of sea level rise from land ice sources (excluding thermal expansion of water from the continual increase in the ocean heat content). [114]
The Greenland ice sheet is 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) thick and broad enough to blanket an area the size of Mexico.The ice is so massive that its weight presses the bedrock of Greenland below sea level and is so all-concealing that not until recently did scientists discover Greenland's Grand Canyon or the possibility that Greenland might actually be three islands.
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Map of Greenland icesheets Map of Greenland bedrock. This is a list of rivers of Greenland. Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Most rivers in Greenland are formed from melting of glaciers. [1] [2]
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An enlargeable map of Greenland. Pronunciation: / ˈ ɡ r iː n l ən d / Common English country name: Greenland; Official English country name: Greenland of the Kingdom of Denmark; Common endonym(s): Kalaallit Nunaat; Official endonym(s): Kalaallit Nunaat; Adjectival(s): Greenlandic (disambiguation) Demonym(s): Greenlander(s) Etymology: Name ...