Neil comment: The didn't call it Greenland because it was covered in white snow. Even though most people believes that they called it green to trick people to move there. Sure... It has nothing to do with the fact that they were growing crops there so that the Vikings could reload their supply on their way to America, that's just a conspiracy financed by the Oil Industry, isn't it?ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2008)
Recent mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been periodically ice free.
”The climate in the northern regions has never been milder since the last Ice Age than it was about 6000-7000 years ago. We still don’t know whether the Arctic Ocean was completely ice free, but there was more open water in the area north of Greenland than there is today,” says Astrid Lyså, a geologist and researcher at the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU).
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