Greenland is the largest in the world .It covers over 2,000,000 square kilometers. Most of it lies inside the Arctic Circle ,and a huge sheet of ice covers 85% of it .Imagine that a map of Greenland is on top of Europe .Greenland stretches from London to the middle of the Sahara Desert. The ice sheet is more than 1.6 kilometres thick ,and it never melts .
Along the sea coast, mountains rise from the sea. There are a few low trees in the southwest, but no forests. Snow covers everything in winter, but in summer very low plants cover the ground between the sea and the ice sheet. Norwegian Vikings were the first Europeans to see the Island in A.D. 875, but no one visited it until 982. Three Years later a few Vikings went to live there. In 1261 the people in Greenland decided to join Norway. Norway and Denmark united in 1380. This union ended in 1814,and Greenland stayed with Denmark. Greenland is fifty times larger than Denmark, but it is still a part of this small country.

格陵兰岛是世界上面积最大的岛屿。她的面积是2，000，000平方公里。她大部分的面积都位于北极圈之内，而厚重的冰层更把她85%的面积都覆盖了。你可以想象得到格陵兰岛位于欧洲上空的那种画面。格陵兰岛从伦敦开始一直延伸到撒哈拉沙漠的中心。覆盖在其土地上的冰层的厚度更是在1600公里之上，而且它从没融化过。
山脉从海里发源并沿着海岸线连绵。在格陵兰岛的西南部只有少量的低杆的树木，并没有森林。冬天的时候，大雪会覆盖一切。但是，在夏天的时候，矮小的植物却是覆盖了冰层与海洋之间的土地。公元875年，挪威的斯堪的纳维亚人是首先发现这个岛屿的欧洲人，然而在982年之前，还没有人到过那里。而在此之后3年，一些斯堪的纳维亚人开始在那里生活。在1261年，格陵兰岛上的人民决定归顺挪威。在1380年，挪威和丹麦结成联盟，但联盟在1814就瓦解了，自此，格陵兰岛则被列入丹麦的领土之内。虽然格陵兰岛的面积是丹麦面积的5倍，但却仍然只是这个小国家的一部分。