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Greenland: Birdlife includes many migrant species from jnerica that summer in Greenland. The snowy wl and ptarmigan winter in Greenland; the low bunting and raven are among the common-st land birds; and the Greenland falcon is per-aps the most famous.
Government. In 1951, Greenland became an itegral part of Denmark under the Danish prime linister, who is represented in Greenland by a Dvemor. Greenland is divided into two con-ituencies and elects two representatives to the •anish parliament. The local administration of orth and east Greenland is directly in the prime linister's department; west Greenland elects its m councils to carry out administrative work.Greenland may be divided into two physiographic regions—the Greenland ice cap and the ice-free coastal areas. The ice cap covers more than 700,000 square miles (1.8 million sq km) and buries all the landforms except for a few nunataks (mountain peaks) that project through the ice near the margins. The ice cap generally does not reach the sea except in large outlet glaciers.
Geology and Geography. The Greenland Shield »mprises the greater part of the exposed land surface of Greenland and, like the Canadian Shield to the west, is composed chiefly of gran-tes and gneisses. These Precambrian folded wks have been strongly denuded, and at some wints younger sedimentary rocks have been de-losited on them, particularly in the north. |
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