greenland Greenland (Kalaallisut: Kalaallit Nunaat) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans,

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greenland Greenland (Kalaallisut: Kalaallit Nunaat) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Nuuk

Sisimiut

Quaqortoq

Nanortaik

Scool children

Footbal in Ummannaq

Kulusuk

Inuit hooks for ice fishing Ice fishing

Unloading fish

Midnight sun

Floating ice left

Jacobshaven glacier

Northern lights over Greenland fjord

Blue pools

Floating ice fills a harbour

Inuits from Disko Island

Inuit people

Inuit hunter

Greenland shark

Melting iceberg

The edge of Greenland ice end