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#1 Greenland's name is often blamed on a Viking named Erik the Red, who exiled himself from nearby Iceland in the year 982 after he killed two men in a neighborhood dispute. He named his discovery Greenland in the belief that a good name would encourage his countrymen to settle there with him. But the ploy didn't work.

#2 Greenland is the world's loneliest place. It has the lowest population density of any country or dependent territory. It is three times the size of France, and it occupies more than twice the area of the second-largest island, New Guinea.

#3 For centuries, Greenland was largely ignored by the world. But in the 20th century, it was seen as a potential Nazi staging ground and springboard for a blitzkrieg, or lightning war, with a ground invasion of the United States and Canada.

#4 Allied planners feared that Germany would establish weather stations in Greenland that could be used to guide Luftwaffe bombing runs over Great Britain and the Continent.