Monday, August 29, 2011

White Beauty of Greenland

Aurora northern light Nuuk, Greenland
 Greenland dalam bahasa Inggris, atau Tanah Hijau (nama resmi: Kalaallit Nunaat, bahasa Denmark: Grønland), adalah sebuah pulau di Samudra Atlantik bagian utara di arah timur laut Kanada. Luas wilayahnya adalah 2.166.086 km² dan merupakan pulau terbesar di dunia. Pulau ini termasuk wilayah Kerajaan Denmark. Sejak tahun 1979, Tanah Hijau diberi kemandirian dan sejak tahun 1985 tidak lagi menjadi anggota Uni Eropa. Akan tetapi, Ratu Denmark masih tetap menjabat sebagai kepala negara. Ibukota Tanah Hijau adalah Nuuk.

 

 Tanah Hijau secara geografis merupakan bagian dari Amerika Utara. 80% dari seluruh wilayah tertutup es yang di beberapa tempat ketebalannya mencapai 3 kilometer. Hanya daerah pesisir selatan dan barat yang bisa didiami manusia.
 
Bendera Greenland
Sejarah
Penduduk asli Tanah Hijau adalah orang Inuit atau Eskimo. Sementara ada pula orang Denmark dan campuran antara orang Inuit dan Denmark yang disebut sebagai orang Tanah Hijau. Di Qaanaaq didirikan markas militer Amerika Serikat. Penduduk Tanah Hijau berjumlah kira-kira 58.000 jiwa yang terdiri atas 80% orang Tanah Hijau, 14,5% orang Denmark, sedangkan sisanya dari suku bangsa yang lain. Bahasa yang banyak digunakan di Tanah Hijau adalah bahasa Inuit sehingga menjadi bahasa resmi selain bahasa Denmark.
Agama yang paling banyak dianut penduduknya adalah Kristen Protestan aliran Luther, sama seperti di Denmark.


Glesyer kaki gajah

greenland adalah pulau terbesar di dunia dan bukan benua.


ERODED ICEBERGS IN ERIC’S FJORD


 ICE CAP OF KANGERDLUARSSUK



 Jika semua es di greenland mencair, maka permukaan laut di dunia akan naik setinggi lebih dari 7 meter.

 EAST TASIILAQ, GREENLAND

 REINDEER HERD NEAR IVITUUT, GREENLAND


Scientists Jason Box of Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center and polar expedition expert Eric Philips, both members of the Greenpeace Arctic Impacts tour, assisted by experts in ice logistics, set up one of a series of time-lapse cameras surveying the 16km wide Petermann Glacier, in northwest Greenland on July 29, 2009. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise has arrived in the area, to carry out several weeks scientific research into the impacts of climate change, and to bear witness to the glacier's disintegration.


ICEBERG OFF SYDPROVEN, GREENLAND
Icebergs float in the calm waters of a fjord, south of Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland 

A polar bear walks along the edge of an ice bridge in the Robeson channel, between Greenland and Canada on June 29, 2009. Greenpeace and leading climate scientists are in Greenland for a 3 month expedition using their icebreaking ship the Arctic Sunrise to gather climate change data for the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009

The Arctic Sunrise reaches the ice bridge in the Robeson channel, between Greenland and Canada

Large moulin on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Two recent studies of ice sheet motion and melting suggest that surface melting can produce dramatic drainage and seismic shifting on the Greenland Ice Sheet. But, surface melt that eventually lubricates the bottom of the ice sheet and accelerates its slide over bedrock may not be enough, by itself, to cause catastrophic loss of ice sheet mass. This research appeared in the 17 April 2008 issue of Science Express

Icebergs are reflected in the waters of Eriks Fjord near the town of Narsarsuaq in southern Greenland

An iceberg floats near a harbour in the town of Kulusuk, east Greenland

A large meltwater stream rushes across the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet filling a supraglacial lake

iceberg disco bay greenland


iceberg
 
An ice-filled fjord near Ilulissat in Greenland

Aerial photograph of Upernavik, Greenland, taken from a helicopter

Aerial view of Ilulissat glacier, near Ilulissat, Greenland

View from the from top of Somandsfjeldet, a mountain above the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland - the town is visible along the shoreline at center right

Wildflowers bloom on a hill overlooking a fjord filled with icebergs near the south Greenland town of Narsaq

Icebergs float in a fjord near the south Greenland town of Narsaq

Hiu Greenland jenis sleeper shark

Icebergs are shrouded in an early morning fog near the south Greenland town of Narsaq

The sun and the icebergs around Cape York, Greenland
 
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