Same-sex marriage in Greenland Same-sex marriage in Greenland Same-sex marriage became legal in Greenland, an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, on 1 April 2016. The territory had previously recognised registered partnerships, from 1 July 1996 until 1 April 2016. Denmark's registered partnership law had been in operation since 1 October 1989. A bill to expand its application to Greenland was approved by the Greenlandic Parliament on 14 May 1993 (15 votes to 0 with 12 abstentions) and by the Danish Parliament on 28 March 1996 (104 votes to 1) and was given royal assent on 26 April 1996. It took effect on
Greenland southwest across Baffin Bay, and Iceland, east of Greenland in the Atlantic Ocean. Greenland also contains the world's largest national park, and it is the largest dependent territory by area in the world, as well as the fourth largest country subdivision in the world, after Sakha Republic in Russia, Australia's state of Western Australia, and Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai, and the largest in North America. The average daily temperature of Nuuk, Greenland varies over the seasons from . The total area of Greenland is (including other offshore minor islands), of which the Greenland ice sheet covers (81%) and has a volume