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History of Greenland in maps
Greenland as it appears in 5 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 2015: Greenland. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Greenland before it was Greenland? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Greenland — the ice sheet and outer coasts · Norse and Aztecs
Most of Greenland is an ice sheet up to 3,200 metres high, whose layers record the climate of the past hundred thousand years and more; the cores drilled at Summit and Crête are among the main sources of this atlas. Its outer coasts were too cold for Norse farming, though the Inuit hunted along many of them.
| Other peoples and states — the opening position |
NORSE AND AZTECS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Greenland · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Greenland · WWI
Greenland · Cold War
| NATO & core Western allies — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Greenland (Danish) · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Authoritarian, one-party or colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Right won in law | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Right won in law |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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