Greenland is the ONLY land north of the Arctic Circle that doesn't have a large landmass to the south of it. It is no surprise then to find that Greenland is the one place that is the most like Antarctica in its climate. Antarctica and Greenland are the two places where there are large permanent ice sheets. Ice sheets are what glaciers grow into when they continue to grow for hundreds of thousands of years. An ice sheet can cover thousands of square miles and be thick enough to cover mountain ranges. Antarctica has had some amount of permanent ice sheets for more than 34 million years now. The
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