Greenland is the largest island in the world which literally means land or green land, although almost 80% of its area is covered by snow which in some places reaches 3 km in thickness, therefore most of Greenland is very inhospitable for humans to live in, with an area of reaching 2.16 million square kilometers, there is only four hundred and ten thousand square kilometers of land that can be occupied by humans with a total population of about 60 thousand people, which is why Greenland has been named the most sparsely populated area in the world.
Although the naming of Greenland seems to contrast with the fact that the naming is true, the name Greenland was first given by Drake, an Icelandic assassin who was exiled to the island in 1982 AD he called the island Greenland in the hope that the name would attract the attention of other people to settle when When Erick arrived, the temperature in Greenland was still warm enough so that the green nature could still be seen very clearly, Greenland always presents an interesting phenomenon.
In addition to the charming snowflakes every year the sun on another green does not set all day and night, which it lasts for two consecutive months from May to July, this phenomenon is known as mic raise or midnight sun, the cause of this phenomenon. The midnight sun is related to the rotation of the earth and the motion of the earth's revolution in addition to the tilt of the earth by 23 degrees, when the earth moves around the sun and the northern part of the earth is closer to the sun, that part will get more sunlight than the southern region.
Therefore, at the same time the northern hemisphere will experience summer, even in the northernmost part of the day the days become longer and cause the midnight sun to occur, then when the earth continues to rotate and make the sun's position seem to move towards the south of the earth, the hemispheres the southern hemisphere enters summer while the northern hemisphere experiences winter, then at its peak the southern hemisphere experiences a longer duration of summer.
Just like the northern part of the earth, this region also experiences the phenomenon of the midnight sun but at different times, in addition to the sun that does not set throughout the day and night, greenland is also the place where the aurora appears, a natural wonder in the form of a blazing light on the earth's iconos fair. The aurora always occurs throughout the year, only during the summer months in Greenland, the light cannot be seen, it is because the sun still appears in the middle of the night.
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