Why is Greenland called frozen green land?

Frozen green land

Greenland literally means "green land" in Danish, its official language. Why does this land, which is thousands of miles frozen and wrapped in silver, enjoy such a name of spring?

There is a story about the origin of the name of Greenland. According to legend, in ancient times, about 982 AD, there was a Norwegian pirate who set out from Iceland in a small boat and planned to cross the ocean. All his friends thought he was too bold and worried about his safety. Later, he found a meadow in the south of Greenland, which was green and lovely. After returning to his hometown, he proudly said to his friends, "I not only came back safely, but also found a greenland continent!" " So Greenland became its permanent name.

Because there is only snow and no rain all year round, Greenland can be said to be a kingdom of ice and snow, except for a few areas such as the southwest coast where there is no permafrost and a few trees and green spaces. Standing in Greenland, you will have a full sense of "thousands of miles of ice, snow drifting in Wan Li". 85% of the island is covered with glaciers and heavy icebergs. Various icebergs and glaciers have become the wonders of Greenland. When you have a rich association with them, you will feel that you are in the ancient battlefield of tension for a while, and then you are in Yuan Ye, Ma Benteng. The ice in Greenland contains a lot of bubbles, which will make a continuous popping sound when put into water. It is a very good cold drink, and people call it "eternal ice". This kind of ice is clean and high in purity, so it is a rare enjoyment to drink "Wan Nian Bing" on a hot summer day. Greenland is rich in "perpetual ice", with an average thickness of 23 meters, which is magnificent and is a huge continental glacier next to Antarctica in modern times.

At the same time, because most of Greenland is in the Arctic Circle, there will be polar extreme days and nights in Greenland. The closer to the high latitude, the longer the extreme days and nights in a year. Every winter, there is a polar night that lasts for several months. Occasionally, the colorful Northern Lights appear over Greenland. Sometimes they spray the sky like colorful fireworks, and sometimes they dance like fairies holding colored silks, bringing vitality to the night sky in Greenland. In summer, the sun shines all day long, and Greenland becomes an island where the sun never sets. This special phenomenon unique to the polar regions has also attracted countless people to travel here.

Greenland is also an animal paradise. The eastern coast has been blocked with insurmountable ice for many years, because the natural conditions there are extremely bad and the traffic is difficult, so it is inaccessible. This makes this vast area a natural refuge for some endangered plants, birds and mammals in the Arctic.

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