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Islands. Greenland

Islands have their own kind of magic, and Greenland is one of the most magical of them all. During the summer months, it’s daylight a lot of the time – and it’s hard to sleep! But that gives you more time to see this strange, wild and enormous place. Greenland is the biggest island in the world. It lies between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, off the coast of North America. It’s almost two-thirds the size of Australia. So, there is a lot of land, but it’s not very green. In fact, Greenland is the least green of all the islands. And that’s because an icecap – a thick layer of ice – covers 85 (eighty-five) percent of Greenland. Snow falls on Greenland in every month of the year. The snow gets deeper and deeper and turns to ice. As a result, Greenland has the second largest icecap in the world after Antarctica. On average, the ice is one and a half kilometres thick, but in some places it’s thicker than that – more than three kilometres thick, in fact. And it’s always moving. In large parts of the island, there are no people at all.

All towns and settlements of Greenland are situated along the ice-free coast, with the population being concentrated along the west coast. The northeastern part of Greenland is not part of any municipality, but it is the site of the world's largest national park, Northeast Greenland National Park. At least four scientific expedition stations and camps had been established on the ice sheet in the ice-covered central part of Greenland. (World of Islands)



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  1. Greenland is one of the most

  2. It’s hard to sleep because of the

  3. An icecap covers _____of Greenland.

  4. The population is concentrated along the ____ coast.

  5. What is the name of the world’s largest national park?

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