GREENLAND THE LAND OF ICE

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Greenland is the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic ice sheet. The ice sheet is almost 2,900 kilometers (1,800 mi) long in a north–south direction, and its greatest width is 1,100 kilometers (680 mi) at a latitude of 77°N, near its northern margin. The average thickness is about 1.5 km (0.9 mi) and over 3 km (1.9 mi) at its thickest point.[1] In addition to the large ice sheet, smaller ice caps (such as Maniitsoq and Flade Isblink) as well as glaciers, cover between 76,000 and 100,000 square kilometers (29,000 and 39,000 sq mi) around the periphery.