Qaqoortoq, Greenland (CNN) -- Greenland is an autonomous territory that is partially administered by Denmark. The police force and military in Greenland are Danish and Greenland sends three members to the Danish parliament. It is the largest Island in the world and was discovered around 982 by an explorer named Eric the Red who had been exiled from Iceland for murder for three years. That is significant because Eric the Red sailed to Greenland in a small wooden boat, but nowadays the area around Greenland is covered all year with pack ice and icebergs. It would have been impossible for him to penetrate the ice fields around Greenland with the vessels of the day.
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Temperatures in Greenland thought to have been higher during the 10th century when discovered by Eric the Red
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As ice melts today, Greenland is becoming a better place to farm a variety of crops
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Numbers of livestock, such as sheep, could double from current population of 20,000, says farmer
We can't make enough for the winter here so we have to import everything from @placeholder, which is very expensive."