INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Greenland ice sheet (Danish: Grønlands indlandsis, Greenlandic: Sermersuaq) is a vast body of ice covering 1, 710, 000 square kilometres (660, 000 sq mi), roughly near 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is sometimes referred to as an ice cap, or under the term inland ice, or its Danish equivalent, indlandsis.

Detailed explanation-2: -The North of Greenland gets very little snow Greenland is covered by 1.8 million square kilometres of ice, accounting for more than 80% of its landmass, but the land at its northernmost point is actually free from ice.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Greenland Ice Sheet covers about 80 percent of the world’s largest island, stretching across 1.7 million square kilometers (656, 000 square miles)-an area about three times the size of Texas.

Detailed explanation-4: -Greenland sits between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans and is almost entirely covered with ice. A massive ice sheet blankets about 80% of the land surface, but in recent decades, the ice has been getting thinner, glaciers are retreating at the edges of the ice sheet, and it is melting at its top.

Detailed explanation-5: -Almost 80 percent of the land mass is covered by an ice cap. The ice-free area may be a minority, but it’s still around the size of Sweden. With a population of 56, 480 (2017 estimate), it is one of the least densely populated countries in the world.