The Kalaallit Nunaat high arctic tundra ecoregion covers the coastal areas of northern including the upper half of the west coast and the upper one-third of the east coast.[1] Greenland (called Kalaallit Nunaat in the Greenlandic language). Areas inland of this strip of land are either covered in ice or bare rock. About one-third of the region is covered by mosses and lichens, and another 3% by herbaceous vegetation and shrubs. The largest national park in the world, Northeast Greenland National Park, protects a majority of the land within the ecoregion.[2][3][4][5] The Pituffik Space Base is also located in this ecoregion.[6]
The KalaallitNunaathigharctictundra ecoregion covers the coastal areas of northern including the upper half of the west coast and the upper one-third...
The Canadian HighArcticTundra ecoregion encompasses most of the northern Arctic archipelago, from much of Baffin Island, Somerset Island, and Prince...
list of tundra ecoregions from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) includes: TundraArctictundra biome information from the WWF Alpine tundra information...
Greenland (Greenlandic: KalaallitNunaat, pronounced [kalaːɬːit nʉnaːt]; Danish: Grønland, pronounced [ˈkʁɶnˌlænˀ]) is a North American autonomous territory...
from the Aleutian Islands to Newfoundland. It includes the Nearctic's arctictundra and boreal forest ecoregions. In terms of floristic provinces, it is...
(along with Denmark proper and the Faroe Islands), Greenland, known as KalaallitNunaat in the Greenlandic language, maintains much autonomy today. Of a population...
are very low, with an average high around 10 °C (50 °F). This is too low to sustain trees, and the land is treeless tundra. On the Greenland ice sheet,...
extends from north of the Arctic Circle to south of the Tropic of Cancer. Greenland, along with the Canadian Shield, is tundra with average temperatures...
Nunatsiavut of Newfoundland and Labrador. Originally using the Greenlandic term "Nunaat" excluding the waters and ice, Inuit of Canada, through the Inuit Tapiriit...
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