SKI GREENLAND 2003
Traversing Greenland on Skis 2003
An
expedition to cross Greenland's ice cap
from the east coast to the west coast,
skiing while pulling pulks ( sleds)
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- Greenland is the world's largest island. About 84% of its area is ice-capped.
- Greenland was granted self-government in 1978 by the Danish parliament.
- Greenland and the Faeroe Islands are part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
- All three areas have the Danish Royal Family, the Constitution, foreign policy, defense and the judicial system in common.
- Both Greenland and the Faeroe Islands have two seats in the Danish parliament.
- Each of the three areas has its own language and its own flag.
- Both Greenland and Faeroe Islands have Home Rule
- Greenland is geographical located in Northern North America.
- It is an island between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada
Total area: 2,166,086 sq km
(410,449 sq km ice-free)
Distances, north-south 2,670 km
Distances, east-west 1,050 km
Coastline: 39,000 km
Highest point: Gunnbjorn 3,733 m
Local time is GMT 3 hours.
Population:
56,540 (January 2002)
Male 30,030
Female 26,510
Ethnic groups: Greenlandic 87% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 13%
Religions: Evangelical Lutheran
Languages:
By Greenlandic law, Greenlandic is the official language.
Greenlandic
and Danish language may be used in politics and administration.
Kalaallisut, Greenlandic belongs to the East-inuit family of languages
and is a polysynthetic language,
which means that the meaning-forming
sentence elements used in other words are fused into one word which may
stand for a whole sentence.
Danish is used extensively.
English is the
third language
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