Greenland

name

Etymology: From green + land, calque of Old Norse Grǿnland, from grǿnn (“green”) + land (“land”).

1. A large self-governing dependent territory of Denmark, in North America.

   “What’s been less well understood is how President Trump’s idle musing has added another chapter to the long history of Greenland and its people being viewed simply as a resource to be exploited by larger powers.”

2. The ice-covered island on which it is located, the largest island in the world (not counting Australia).

   “To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.”

   “Modern Danish colonization of Greenland began with what today might also seem like a joke.”

3. Spitzbergen, another island in Europe formerly thought to have been part of Greenland.
4. A surname.
5. A city in Arkansas.
6. A village in Barbados.
7. A ghost town in California.
8. An unincorporated community in Colorado.
9. A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
10. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
11. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.