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Greenland

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The world's largest island, Greenland is about eighty percent buried under an ice sheet up to three kilometres thick, its Inuit people clinging to ice-free coasts. A self-governing part of Denmark, it is warming and thawing faster than almost anywhere, and increasingly fought over.

The East & the Far North1 place

East Greenland & Scoresby SoundNature · ●●●●○The wildest edge of the Arctic: the largest fjord system on Earth, a labyrinth of iceberg-filled channels and sheer…

The West Coast1 place

The Ilulissat IcefjordNature · ●●●●○A fjord choked with icebergs the size of buildings and city blocks, calved from one of the fastest-moving glaciers on…