History of Greenland

thumb|Recreated Norsemen|Norse long house, [[L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The site was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1978.]] Vinland, Vineland, or Winland () was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Erikson landed there around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. The name appears in the Vinland sagas and describes a land beyond Greenland, Helluland, and Markland. Much of the geographical content of the sagas corresponds to present-day knowledge of transatlantic travel and No

Cryolite (Na3AlF6, sodium hexafluoroaluminate) is a rare mineral identified with the once-large deposit at Ivittuut on the southwest coast of Greenland, mined commercially until 1987.

aspect of history

overview about the constitution of Denmark

Sea explorer

Qilakitsoq () is an abandoned settlement and an important archaeological site in Greenland. It is the location of the discovery of eight mummified corpses from the Thule period. These Inuit mummies offer important insights into the lives of Inuit about 500 years ago.

thumb|The Zeno map showing Frisland to the lower left

Danish geologist (1819-1893)

failed polar expedition

phantom island

aspect of history

thumb|Map of Greenland showing location of Myggbukta within Eirik Raudes Land (occupied by Norway 1931-1933 Myggbukta () was a Norwegian whaling, meteorological and radio station (Myggbukta Radio/LMG) located on the coast of Eastern Greenland in present-day King Christian X Land.

thumb|right|Station Eismitte in 1930 thumb|The three scientists manning the station: Ernst Sorge, Fritz Loewe and Johannes Georgi with one of the [[aerosledges of the expedition.]] Eismitte, also called Mid-Ice in English, was a meteorological station established, in the middle of the Greenland Ice Sheet, by the 1930-31 German Greenland Expedition. The venture took place from July 1930 until August 1931, and established three Arctic stations on the same parallel. The expedition leader, German scientist Alfred Wegener, died during a trip back from Eismitte, in early November 1930. The station w

Norse settlements in Greenland during the Middle Age

Icelandic explorer

Saami explorer (1861–1921)

thumb|Groclant on the Mercator map. Groclant is the name of a phantom island generally shown off the western side of Greenland, first appearing on maps in the late 16th century. The name of the island may be an errant reading of Greenland.

Danish colony from 1950 to 1953

Danish state enterprise

Danish colony from 1953 to 1979

Norwegian catholic priest

Norwegian declaration on Danish sovereignty over Greenland

former local government bodies in Greenland

aspect of history

British mariner, died 1606?

Phantom island

Dano-Norwegian merchant (1691-1753)

Danish naval officer and explorer (1859-1926)

Greenlandic politician (1718-1786)

Dano-Norwegian Christian missions organization