The literal meaning of Greenland is "green land" in Danish, the official language. Why does it have this live name? All over here are thousands miles of freeze and snow-bound land.
There is a intersting story about the name od Greenland. In ancient legend, about AD 982, there was a Norwegian pirate, a man who drove a boat and wanted to travel across the ocean from Iceland. His friends thought he was bodacious and worried about his safety. Later he found a grassland in southern Greenland which is a less than a kilometer. It was very green and cute. After went back, he said proudly to his friends: "I was not only safe to come back, I also found a green continent!" After then, Greenland became a permanent name. Greenland is the world's largest island, which has 2.175 millions square kilometers, and there are about 4 / 5 regions in the Arctic Circle. The annual temperature in Greenland is 0 degree Celsius, and the coldest temperature can reach minus 70 degrees Celsius in some places!
Greenland is an ice kingdom, because there is only snow, no rain,all over the year, and only on the southwestern coast and a few other areas never frozen, so that there is a number of trees and some green area. If you stand in the Greenland and recite "ice, A thousand miles, snow, ten thousand miles" , you will be excited.
85% of the island ground is covered with massive glaciers and icebergs. Different styles of ice and glaciers make up the amazing scene. You will find that maybe you are in the ancient battlefields or the grassland full of thousands of horses if you look at here and imagine. Greenland's ice contains a large number of air bubbles. If you put it into the water, there will have a continuous burst noise. It is a very good cold stuff, was called as "perennial ice." This ice is clean, pure.If you drink a "perennial ice" in the hot summer, you will have a wonderful enjoyment. Greenland is rich of "perennial ice". The average ice thickness is about 2300 meters, that is second only to the modern great continent of Antarctica glaciers.