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Originally Posted by Sunroof View Post
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?
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.
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