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Originally Posted by Sunroof
Well if you consider plate tectonics, continental drift, etc, it was a part of the continent. Did'nt the Vikings discover it and call it "Greenland" to screw with everyones minds back then?
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No, it actually was green then. Climate was much warmer. Way before Gore invented warm climates.
Eric the Red had a farm on Greenland, England was known for it's excellent wines.
Climate cooled and they started making malt beverages in England.
Lush Farms on Greenland went away.
The map is a Mercator Projection, they're all that way, not just Google. It's one of the ways to project a globe on a flat sheet of paper. Only the scale at the equater is true.