Sentence examples for greenland from inspiring English sources

Even if the courts permit it to drill off Alaska, it is likely to be disrupted by environmental protesters, as Cairn was off Greenland.

These are three of the five countries that border on the richest, and trickiest, prize of all, the Arctic (Denmark because it owns Greenland, unless and until the Greenlanders should become independent, as some wish).

Meanwhile, here in the west, unchallenged by international courts, Norway, Iceland and Greenland continue whaling.

Visas can be arranged through Footloose Sea kayaking was invented in Greenland by Inuit hunters as a means of pursuing seals and whales, but today it is growing in popularity among holidaymakers keen to get up close to the majestic icebergs around the coast.

Algeria left the forerunner of the EEC when it became independent in 1962; the 56,000 residents of Greenland departed in 1985; the French Caribbean colony of Saint Barthelemy (which, with nearly 10,000 inhabitants, has as roughly the same population as Glastonbury, in Somerset) formally exited the EU in 2012.

A palaeontologist/geologist will be joining the Jewels of the Arctic trip, which visits Spitsbergen, Greenland and Iceland, to share his knowledge of volcanoes, fjords and rocks.

Abbott wrote that "in Roman times, grapes were widely grown in Britain" and how "in medieval times, Greenland supported agriculture".

Yet a recent assessment published in March 2014 in the journal The Cryosphere used new satellite measurements to estimate that the world's major ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are now shrinking at the rate of about 500 cubic kilometres a year.

Greenland, meanwhile, is 1/14th the size of the continent.

If you took all the ice disappearing every year from Antarctic and Greenland and covered Manhattan Island with it, you'd have a chunk of ice more than five miles high.

On Monday EU states voted en masse to support a motion raising the quota for aboriginal whale kills in Greenland to 207 per year by 2018.