Greenland Sea - Wikipedia
The Greenland Sea (Danish: Grønlandshavet) is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south.
Greenland Sea | Map, Ice, Location, & Facts | Britannica
Greenland Sea, outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean, with an area of 465,000 square miles (1,205,000 square km). It lies south of the Arctic Basin proper and borders Greenland (west), Svalbard (east), the main Arctic Ocean (north), and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland (south). Average depth is 4,750 feet (1,450 metres), with the deepest recorded ...
Greenland | History, Population, Map, Flag, & Weather | Britannica
3 天之前 · Greenland, the world’s largest island, lying in the North Atlantic Ocean. Greenland is noted for its vast tundra and immense glaciers. Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, but the island’s home-rule government is responsible for most domestic affairs.
Geography of Greenland - Wikipedia
Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. The territory comprises the island of Greenland—the largest island in the world —and more than a hundred other smaller islands (see alphabetic list ).
Greenland Maps & Facts - World Atlas
2021年2月25日 · Greenland, the world’s largest (non-continent) island is located between the continents of North America and Europe in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is geographically considered a part of the North American continent. Greenland is positioned both in the Northern and Western hemispheres of the Earth.
Greenland Sea - WorldAtlas
2021年3月3日 · The Greenland Sea is the Arctic Ocean’s second-largest sea after the Barents Sea. It has an average depth of 1,444 m, with a maximum volume of 1.75 million km 3. Its drainage basin covers three countries: Iceland, Norway, and Greenland (autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark).
Maps of Greenland - The World's Largest Island - Geology.com
Greenland is located between the North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. Most of the island is north of the Arctic Circle. The entire island is north of the 10°C isotherm and the Arctic treeline. [1] The main island of Greenland has an area of 822,700 square miles (2,130,800 square kilometers), which makes it the world's largest island.
As Greenland’s Ice Sheet Melts, an Island Town Rises
2024年12月3日 · As the ice that covers Greenland melts, land freed from its weight gradually rises in a process known by scientists as isostatic rebound. The pressure that once compressed the Earth’s crust...
Greenland ice sheet - Wikipedia
The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of 1.67 km (1.0 mi) thick and over 3 km (1.9 mi) thick at its maximum. [2]
Greenland | Oceans at MIT
Greenland is a source of major uncertainty in projections of global sea level rise over the coming decades and centuries. The largest island in the world, it contains enough grounded ice to raise global mean sea level by roughly seven meters, if it were to …