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  2. Economy of Greenland - Wikipedia

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    The economy of Greenland is characterized as small, mixed and vulnerable. [9] Greenland's economy consists of a large public sector and comprehensive [10] foreign trade. This has resulted in an economy with periods of strong growth, considerable inflation, unemployment problems and extreme dependence on capital inflow from the Kingdom Government.

  3. Kujataa - Wikipedia

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    Kujataa is a sub-arctic farming landscape in the southern region of Greenland. [1] It is the first known example of agriculture in the Arctic, and the oldest evidence of the Old Norse culture spreading outside Europe. [1]

  4. Eastern Settlement - Wikipedia

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    While the diet of the first settlers consisted of 80% agricultural products and 20% marine food, from the 14th century the Greenland Norsemen had 50–80% of their diet from the sea. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the Greenlandic Inuit oral tradition , there is a legend about why the Norse population of Hvalsey died out and why their houses and churches are in ...

  5. Climate-friendly farming: Greenland's melting glaciers offer ...

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    On a shore near Greenland's capital Nuuk, a local scientist points to a paradox emerging as the island's glaciers retreat: one of the most alarming consequences of global warming could deliver a ...

  6. Reindeer hunting in Greenland - Wikipedia

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    In Greenland, reindeer meat is commonly carried over the shoulders, [53] possibly tied to a backpack frame, or carried on the back with support from a headband, the last being a method preferred by the Inuit. Unskinned game may also be dragged on snow, or allowed to slide down steep, snow-covered hillsides, thus saving much work and freeing the ...

  7. History of Greenland - Wikipedia

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    Greenland was always colder in winter than Iceland and Norway, and its terrain less hospitable to agriculture. Erosion of the soil was a danger from the beginning, one that the Greenland settlements may not have recognized until it was too late.

  8. Qassiarsuk - Wikipedia

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    Qassiarsuk is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality, in southern Greenland. Its population was 39 in 2020. [2] Qassiarsuk is part of the Kujataa World Heritage Site, due to its historical importance as the homestead of Erik the Red and its unique testimony to Greenlandic farming. [3]

  9. Western Settlement - Wikipedia

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    "The farm under the sand" is more commonly known as "GUS" from its Danish name "Gården under sandet". The Western Settlement (Old Norse: Vestribygð [ˈwestreˌbyɣð]) was a group of farms and communities established by Norsemen from Iceland around 985 in medieval Greenland.