Greenland
Greenland is the largest island that is not considered a continent. This topic is part of Islands within Geography. This page currently draws on 12 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Greenland trivia questions
Greenland is the world's largest what?
Answer: Island
Bonus fact: Greenland is the largest island that is not considered a continent.
Greenland is an autonomous territory within which kingdom?
Answer: Denmark
Bonus fact: Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Most of Greenland's surface is covered by what?
Answer: Ice sheet
Bonus fact: The Greenland Ice Sheet covers roughly four-fifths of the island.
Which strait lies between Baffin Island and Greenland?
Answer: Davis Strait
Bonus fact: It links Baffin Bay with the Labrador Sea.
Which strait separates Greenland from Iceland?
Answer: Denmark Strait
Bonus fact: It links the Greenland Sea area with the North Atlantic.
Ilulissat Icefjord is the sea mouth of which Greenland glacier?
Answer: Sermeq Kujalleq
Bonus fact: UNESCO describes the fjord as a dramatic site where a fast-moving ice stream calves into the sea.
We are currently living within what broad climatic state?
Answer: An ice age
Bonus fact: Permanent ice sheets still exist in Greenland and Antarctica.
Inuit peoples are Indigenous to what broad region?
Answer: Arctic
Bonus fact: Inuit communities live across parts of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka.
What major distortion occurs near the poles on a Mercator map?
Answer: Areas appear greatly enlarged
Bonus fact: Greenland looks much larger relative to Africa than it really is.
What is the world's largest island?
Answer: Greenland
Bonus fact: The CIA World Factbook lists Greenland as the world's largest island by area.
Which seafaring people came from Scandinavia and raided and traded across Europe?
Answer: Vikings
Bonus fact: Vikings also settled in Iceland and Greenland.
New Guinea is the world's second-largest island after what?
Answer: Greenland
Bonus fact: New Guinea lies north of Australia.