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Green Iceland/Icy Greenland

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概要

If you’ve been to Iceland, you know it doesn’t have much ice. In fact, there’s so much grass that on maps it’s colored green. On the other hand, you probably know that Greenland is covered in glaciers. So why is the green one Iceland and the white one Greenland? Legend has it that the Vikings who discovered Iceland wanted to protect it from settlement, so gave it an unflattering name. But it was actually a matter of perspective. The first explorer to Iceland had a terrible trip. His daughter died on the long voyage. He arrived in winter and his livestock froze. That spring, his ship was nearly sunk by icebergs. Fed up, he called it as he saw it: Iceland. And the name stuck. A century later, another Viking explorer was visiting Iceland when he got in a fight with the settlers and was run off the island. He sailed west and found Greenland, which was warmer than today, and the coastal areas were indeed green. Wanting to attract settlers, he called it Greenland. They came, and built farms and grazing operations—which lasted until around 1400, when the climate cooled. Greenland’s glaciers expanded, leaving less green land. Today the Arctic is warming, which means Greenland’s glaciers are melting, and it may one day be greener again. Conversely, cold glacial meltwater entering the ocean from Greenland could blunt the Gulf Stream that warms Iceland, making it icier.

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