Cairn Energy is drilling south and west of Greenland.

Flights to heliports in the remote settlements are operated on contract with the government of Greenland.

The Democrats () are a centre right populist and Pro European political party in Greenland.

Over 100 species of birds have been seen, and around 50 breed in Greenland.

Fauna The Greenland Sea is densely inhabited by the organisms that form the base of the oceanic food chain.

Narsarsuaq Airport () is an airport located in Narsarsuaq, a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland.

Qaarsut Airport () is an airport in Qaarsut, a settlement on the Nuussuaq Peninsula in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.

An attempt to annex East Greenland ended in defeat at the Hague Tribunal in 1933.

In Greenland two huge chunks of ice broke off in July and August.

The West Ice forms in winter in the Greenland Sea, north of Iceland, between Greenland and Jan Mayen island.

On the eastern periphery, in summer, the West Greenland Current transports water from the Atlantic Ocean to the North.

According to the saga of Erik the Red, when Erik was exiled from Iceland he sailed west and pioneered Greenland.

Conflict with indigenous peoples and lack of support from Greenland brought the Vinland colony to an end within a few years.

Denmark, together with the government of Greenland, now claims that it is the former, giving it the right to extend its economic zone across a huge area at the top of the world. Though nothing is yet known about the claim that Russia says it will present in the spring, there is no doubt that it will argue the opposite.

The range includes the territory of five nations Denmark (Greenland), Norway (Svalbard), Russia, the United States (Alaska) and Canada.

Ludvig Mylius Erichsen (January 15, 1872 November 25, 1907) was a Danish author, ethnologist, and explorer, from Ringkøbing.

South Greenland has experienced a decline in tourist revenue in recent years, but tourism still supports a significant percentage of the viable workforce.

The sea formed upon separation of the North American Plate and Greenland Plate that started about 60 million years ago and stopped about 40 million years ago.

Nearly 10 of the town's inhabitants in 2010 were born outside Greenland, a decline from 16.5 in 1990 and 11.8 in 2000.

Global warming could lead to an increase in freshwater in the northern oceans, by melting glaciers in Greenland and by increasing precipitation, especially through Siberian rivers.

Meanwhile, satellite data show that Antarctica s ice sheet, which is ten times larger than Greenland s, is losing ice as well.

Life before the Cambrian It is not known when life originated, but carbon in 3.8 billion year old rocks from islands off western Greenland may be of organic origin.

Distribution and diversity Ants are found on all continents except Antarctica, and only a few large islands, such as Greenland, Iceland, parts of Polynesia and the Hawaiian Islands lack native ant species.

1500 1814 In 1500, King Manuel I of Portugal sent Gaspar Corte Real to Greenland in search of a Northwest Passage to Asia which, according to the Treaty of Tordesillas, was part of Portugal's influence.

Seemingly dramatic changes in weather patterns including the melting of glaciers in Greenland and the thawing of the Siberian permafrost have at last convinced most business leaders that the time for action is now.

As NASA data revealed earlier this year, the Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass at an accelerating pace. As tide gauges from around the world show, sea levels are indeed rising.

But maybe on that day we also find that the Greenland ice sheet is really melting unacceptably fast, fast enough to put meters of sea level on the oceans in the next 100 years, and remove some of the biggest cities from the map.

As NASA data revealed earlier this year, the Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass at an accelerating pace. As tide gauges from around the world show, sea levels are indeed rising.

It should also be noted that an atmospheric weather pattern known as a block, a persistent area of high pressure that may have led to record melting in Greenland, was most likely the reason that Sandy moved inland rather than out to sea.