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  Atlas - Greenland Map
Greenland lies mostly north of the Arctic Circle and is separated from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, on the west, primarily by the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, and from Iceland, on the east, by the Strait of Denmark.
Greenland was first explored by Eric the Red, a Norwegian settler in Iceland and father of Leif Eriksson, toward the end of the 10th century, and Icelandic settlements were consequently accomplished there under his leadership.
Greenland is the source of many of the weather changes in the northern hemisphere, and knowledge of Greenland weather is of prime importance for the prediction of conditions in the North Atlantic Ocean and in western Europe.
map.freegk.com /greenland/greenland.php   (1288 words)

  
  Greenland - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
It is surrounded by the Arctic Ocean in the north; the Greenland Sea in the east; the Denmark Strait in the southeast, which separates it from Iceland; the Atlantic Ocean in the south; and Davis Strait and Baffin Bay in the west, which separate it from Baffin Island, Canada.
From Iceland, Greenland was discovered and S Greenland colonized (c.985) by Eric the Red, a Norseman, who named it Greenland in order to make it seem attractive to potential settlers.
Greenland became a bishopric c.1110, and ruins of churches of that period remain.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-greenlan.html   (1481 words)

  
 Election Resources on the Internet / Recursos Electorales en la Internet
Elections to the New Zealand House of Representatives and Elections to the German Bundestag describe the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation system used in both countries, with results of parliamentary elections held in New Zealand from 1996 to 2005 and in Germany from 1972 to 2005.
The results of parliamentary elections held in Portugal since 1975 (now including results of the early legislative election held on Sunday, February 20, 2005), as well as a description of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Portuguese legislature are available in Elections to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic.
The results of parliamentary elections held in Denmark since 1990 (now including final results of the early parliamentary election held on Tuesday, February 8, 2005), as well as an overview of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Danish legislature are available in Elections to the Danish Folketing.
www.electionresources.org   (1087 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Greenland premier calls early elections after government collapses in public ...
The election of a new 31-member Landsting, Greenland's parliament, will be held Nov. 22, Enoksen said Thursday.
The split between Enoksen's social democratic Siumut party and junior partner Inuit Ataqatigiit stems from a scandal involving the ministers for fisheries and hunting, and for housing and infrastructure.
The decision to call elections came after months of tension between the two coalition partners.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050916-0956-greenland-elections.html   (204 words)

  
 Politics of Greenland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greenland is a self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark since 1979.
Greenland has a unicameral Parliament or Landsting (31 seats; members are elected by popular vote on the basis of proportional representation to serve four-year terms).
Greenland is represented internationally by the embassies and consulates of Denmark, although Greenland does directly participate in some Nordic organisations which provide membership for dependent territories.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Greenland   (328 words)

  
 Class struggle in the Arctic - Greenland in turmoil
Greenland is in fact an old Danish colony - and it remains such, despite the concession of "self-determination" on some less important issues.
Greenland is a part of the Danish commonwealth along with the Faroe Islands, and is deeply dependent on Denmark when it comes to trade and exports.
Greenland and Danish workers need to link up in a struggle for a socialist federation of the two countries, as part of a wider European socialist federation, based upon the nationalisation of the commanding heights of the economy and democratic planning of production, under workers' control.
www.marxist.com /Europe/greenland_strike.html   (1320 words)

  
 Greenland, Denmark
Greenland (Danish Grønland, Greenlandic Kalaallit Nunaat), the largest island in the world, is situated northeast of the North American continent; it lies between latitude 59°46' and 83°39' north and longitude 11°39' and 73°8' west.
In the west the island is separated from the Canadian Archipelago by Davis Strait, Baffin Bay and Smith Sound, in the east from Spitzbergen by the Greenland Sea and from Iceland by the Denmark Strait.
Greenlandic is derived from the language of the Eskimos and the written language is several hundred years old.
www.planetware.com /denmark/greenland-dk-g-gr.htm   (840 words)

  
 FRONTLINE/WORLD . Election 2004 - Greenland | PBS
Eighty-five percent of Greenland is uninhabited inland ice, otherwise known as the ice cap; the rest is a jagged, rocky fringe where some 57,000 people live, in about 60 scattered settlements.
Greenland is dependent on an annual subsidy of roughly $500 million from Denmark.
When I emailed a friend who lives in East Greenland to tell him I was going to Nuuk this year, he warned me: "Nuuk is horrible." One young woman, who grew up in a small town, told me she had traveled to many places, but she was never homesick until she moved to Nuuk.
www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/elections/greenland   (3275 words)

  
 Denmark (08/06)
Elections are held at least every 4 years, but the prime minister can dissolve the Folketing at any time and call for new elections.
Greenland has registered a foreign trade deficit since the closure of the last remaining lead and zinc mine in 1989.
Besides a continued increase in local content, i.e., using a Greenlandic rather than Danish work force in both the public and private sectors, tourism appears to be the sector that offers the best near-term potential, and even this is limited due to a short season and high costs.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3167.htm   (5359 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Greenland voters root for independence
It was unclear who would become Greenland's new head of state after the vote for the 31-seat parliament.
Turnout of Greenland's 39,000 eligible voters was put at 75%, down slightly from 1999's election.
Greenland, which has a cradle-to-grave system of social benefits, receives $375m annually from Denmark.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/2543303.stm   (447 words)

  
 Missile Defense - Greenland Elections - Center for Defense Information
Greenland, formerly a colony of Denmark, received Home Rule in 1979 but still must yield to Copenhagen in foreign and security matters.
Of late, Greenland has been pushing for more power in its external affairs and even for independence, which 80 percent of the population is said to support.
This ascension, combined with Denmark's awareness that the growing restlessness in Greenland may lead to its independence, means that Copenhagen is going to have to be more sensitive to the island's concerns.
www.cdi.org /missile-defense/greenland.cfm   (1153 words)

  
 Greenland (Denmark)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
The flag of Greenland, or Kalaallit Nunaat, celebrated its 10 anniversary in June 10, 1995.
The first settler in Greenland, Erik the Red, is reported in old Icelandic sagas to have named the new country Greenland to attract other settlers there.
Greenland has been semi-autonomous since 1979, but Denmark remains in charge of foreign and defence policy for the 56,000 islanders.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gl.html   (825 words)

  
 DENMARK: parliamentary elections Folketinget, 2001
Elections were held for all the seats in Parliament following the premature dissolution of this body.
This was the first time that the parliamentary elections were held together with those for county and municipal officials, a move which created some confusion at polling stations as the ballot papers had to be placed in separate boxes.
Opinion polls before the elections indicated that the nine years of Social Democrat rule would be replaced by a more conservative coalition, as they showed that voters favoured the anti-immigration stands of the Liberal Party and the Danish People's Party.
www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2087_01.htm   (370 words)

  
 Election Resources on the Internet: Western Europe
Elections to the Dutch Tweede Kamer (House of Representatives)
Elections to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic
Elections to the Spanish Congress of Deputies, in English and Spanish
electionresources.org /western.europe.html   (430 words)

  
 Portsmouth Herald Local News: Greenland, Rye, Newington voters facing many questions
GREENLAND - The following are summaries of the ballot questions for today's Greenland town elections, from 8 a.m.
Are you in favor of the Greenland subdivision regulation increasing from 18 inches to 24 inches the natural permeable soil that must exist above the seasonal high water table for the installation of the septic system?
GREENLAND - The following warrant articles will be considered at the annual Town Meeting scheduled for Saturday at 10 a.m.
www.seacoastonline.com /2003news/03112003/news/17258.htm   (1667 words)

  
 Greenland - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Around 83% of Greenland is a permanent ice cap and mountains line both the east and west coasts holding the inland ice in place.
It gave Greenland equal rights with the rest of the Danish Kingdom and gave the people of Greenland the right to elect a legislature, however, laws that affected Greenland continued to be made by the Danish government.
In the 1970's many Greenlanders began objecting to Denmark's control over their affairs and in 1979 Denmark granted Greenland internal self government which established a new provincial government that controls the internal affairs of the province.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/greenlnd.htm   (479 words)

  
 John J. Miller on Missile Defense on National Review Online
Last year, Greenland prime minister Jonathan Motzfeldt declared his own sentiments: "My personal opinion is that one should avoid NMD [national missile defense], that's for certain.
Native Greenlanders are not implausibly concerned that their island will be targeted in a hot war, simply because they house important U.S. national-security assets.
Some 80 percent of Greenlanders are said to want it, even though their economy currently relies on massive subsidies from Denmark.
www.nationalreview.com /miller/miller121902.asp   (794 words)

  
 The Mac Weekly
Voter turnout this year of Greenland’s 39,000 voters was 75 percent.
It is currently unclear who will become Greenland’s new head of state after the vote for the 31-seat parliament.
Greenland is classified as a self-governing dependency and has been ruled by Denmark since 1721.
www.macalester.edu /weekly/120602/wnr.html   (983 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Inuit Brothers join Greenland Government
"Greenland should be able to make international deals in issues regarding the country's interests," the new governing parties said.
The Cold War deal was struck without any input from Greenland, which was a Danish colony until it became a dependent territory in 1953.
Mr Enoksen, who speaks only Greenlandic, takes over from a Lutheran priest, Jonathan Motzfeldt (a distant relation of Josef's), who spearheaded efforts in the 1970s that led to Greenland's gaining semi-autonomous status.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/2559523.stm   (403 words)

  
 Greenland Homerule
Government-coalition parties Siumut (socialdemocratic) and Atassut (liberale) met a decrease in votes of 1 and 2 mandates to respectively 11 and 8 mandates at general election to the Greenlandic Parliament, the Landsting, held at February 16th, 1999.
Elections for the Greenland Parliament are held every fourth year, at the election being held on 4 March 1995, the turnout was 69.6 per cent.
Akulliit Partiiat is the newest party in Greenland, its policy lying somewhere between the policies of Atassut and Siumut.
www.gh.gl /uk/facts/election.htm   (322 words)

  
 Global-warming fears switch from Antarctica to Greenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
They found evidence that much of Greenland's ice melted during that balmy interlude, and calculated that the massive Greenland melt-off accounted for nearly all of the rise in sea levels around the globe during that time.
Greenland covers 840,000 square miles -- 85 percent of which is covered by ice up to 2 miles thick.
They found that temperatures in central Greenland during the last interglacial period were 8 to 15 degrees warmer than had been estimated, offering additional evidence that much of the ice sheet melted during that period.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/warm061.shtml   (788 words)

  
 Immigration
Elections are mandated every four years, but the Prime Minister (with a minimum three-week notice) may call early elections.
During the election of 1973, the Progress Party was able to take advantage of the turbulent political climate to garner 16% of the vote in its first election campaign (Betz and Immerfall 1998, 85).
The immigration issue was at the forefront of the debate, perhaps due to the “lack of other problems, the fact that immigration has never been taboo in the Danish media, and by the presence of a right-wing party” (Anderson 2001, 6).
lilt.ilstu.edu /critique/spring2002docs/pytel_roper.htm   (6461 words)

  
 Psephos - Adam Carr's Election Archive
A comprehensive archive of federal elections statistics since 1901, and state and territory statistics since 1990.
2001 and 2006 presidential elections, 2002 and 2007 legislative elections
1999, 2003 and 2004 legislative elections; 2000 and 2004 presidential elections
psephos.adam-carr.net /indexes/index_g.shtml   (113 words)

  
 GENERAL ELECTIONS IN DENMARK 8th FEBRUARY 2005
In explanation of the early elections the Prime Minister emphasised the dangers of a convergence of the general elections, initially planned to take place in November with the local elections that are to be held on 15
The calculation undertaken (addition of the population, the number of voters at the last election and the surface area of the constituency in square kilometres multiplied by 20, the result of this is then divided by 175) favours the regions where the population is low.
Both representatives of the opposition parties on the left from Greenland (Community Spirit, IA and Forwards S) and the representatives of the Equality Party (TF) from the Faeroe Islands created a North Atlantic group in December 2001 that is politically unaligned.
www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/danemark/default.htm   (1547 words)

  
 2008 elections archive at mandarin musing
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www.mandarinmusing.com /category/2008-elections   (547 words)

  
 Discussion paper 8 - ARCCRP project
Figures issued by Statistics Greenland, the central authority for all statistics in Greenland, show that, as at 1 January 1999, only 11.2% of a total population of 56,083 were born outside Greenland, mainly in Denmark and the Faroe Islands.
Greenland was brought into the European Community upon Denmark's admission in 1973, despite the fact that less than twenty-nine percent of people in Greenland voted in favour of membership.
Greenlanders have exercised significant leadership and co-operation in regional and international forums, and have often resorted to international standards, such as human rights conventions, when conflicts have arisen or as authority for their claims.
www.austlii.edu.au /au/other/IndigLRes/1998/3/8.html   (18230 words)

  
 Standing Orders of The Folketing
(5) As for elections which are not unanimously recommended for approval, the committee submits a report which shall have been distributed to the Members prior to the meeting during which the matter is debated.
The Folketing may, when scrutinizing the elections, take measures which are deemed to be in accordance with the legislation on elections.
If the names of several candidates have been put down, or if the election has been subject to complaints, the Speaker of the Folketing calls the Members of the committee in question to a constituting meeting, which shall be held within 3 session days counting from the day on which the committee was set up.
www.folketinget.dk /BAGGRUND/00000048/00232620.htm   (15755 words)

  
 Elections in Greenland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elections in Greenland gives information on election and election results in Greenland.
Greenland has a multi-party system, with two or three strong parties and a third party that is electorally successful.
Summary of the 15 November 2005 Parliament of Greenland
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Greenland   (95 words)

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