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Greenland
Arctic island that Erik the Red named and settled in the 980s.
Place
Identifiers
Wikidata Q223
Sources
Book
Íslendingabók, Kristni saga: The Book of the Icelanders, The Story of the Conversion
Book
The Vinland Sagas
Appears in
13 items
History of the Universe
1 item
Holocene
c. 11.65 ka
The Evolution of Life
1 item
Isua stromatolites?
3.7 Ga
The History of Earth
1 item
Isua: pillow lavas and banded iron
c. 3.8 Ga
The Ice Ages
8 items
Ice sheets spread across the north
c. 2.7 Ma
Eemian interglacial (MIS 5e)
129 ka
Last glacial period
115 ka
Bølling–Allerød warming
c. 14.64 ka
Younger Dryas
c. 12.85 ka
The Holocene begins
c. 11.65 ka
The 8.2 ka event
c. 6,302 BCE
GRIP reaches bedrock at Summit
1992
The Viking Age
2 items
Erik the Red settles Greenland
c. 985 CE O.S.
Leif Erikson reaches Vinland
c. 1000 O.S.