5 ATLASES
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? The sections below follow this land through every era covered by the Maps of History atlases: who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed. Each line links to the dated map. Modern borders serve as an approximation, as each atlas says on the map itself.
Greenland — the ice sheet and outer coasts · Norse and Aztecs
Most of Greenland lies beneath an ice sheet that rises to about 3,200 metres. Its layers preserve a climate record stretching back a hundred thousand years and more, and cores from Summit and Crête are among this atlas’s main sources. Conditions at the summit differ from those on the outer coast and in sheltered fjords. The outer coasts were too cold for Norse farming, though Inuit communities 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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