Southern tip of a northern isle

The sheer size of Greenland is hard to put in perspective. The world’s largest island is more than 836,000 square miles – that’s more than three times the size of Texas and more than 170,000 square miles larger than Alaska. It is a land of deep fjords and ice that must have made the Norse explorers who landed there a thousand years ago feel right at home.
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