The Land of Snow: Greenland Test 1

Sweden, Alaska, Finland, Northern Russia and Greenland are the five countries lying in the North Frigid Zone.

Erik Thorvaldsson ( c. 950 – c. 1003), known as Erik the Red, was a Norse explorer, described in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first settlement in Greenland.

• Icebergs are thick masses of ice floating in the ocean.
• They form when large chunks of ice break off a glacier or an ice shelf and float free in the sea. This is called calving.

The white polar bear adorns Greenland's national coat of arms as the symbol for an extensive country.

• Archaeologists and anthropologists now believe that people have lived in the Arctic for as much as twenty thousand years.
• The Inuit in Canada and Greenland, and the Yu'pik, Iñupiat, and Athabascan in Alaska, are just a few of the groups that are native to the Arctic.

A kayak is a narrow boat like a canoe, used by the Inuit people and in the sport of canoeing.

• An igloo is a type of hut built from snow, mainly by Inuits.
• An igloo has a domed shape and is made of compacted bricks of snow.

• Fishing is the lifeline and primary industry of the Greenlandic economy.
• The most commercial resources are shrimps, Greenland halibut and recently the reintroduction of cod.
• The fleet consists of about 850 vessels of various sizes and there is an estimated figure of 5000 smaller boats.