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Archaeological Research in Greenland - English
URL: http://www.natmus.dk/arg/

The aim of this homepage is two-fold. Primarily, to serve as a link between Danish and Greenlandic research working with Greenlandic Prehistory stimulating dialogue between contemporary researchers. Secondly, we hope that the pages in The Cultural History of Greenland may be of some interest to the General Public, providing an updated version of each of Greenland's Prehistoric Cultures.

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Greenland: Recent history - Colonialism - A part of Randburg - English
URL: http://www.randburg.com/gr/general/general_11.html

With the help of the Danish king's assistance in 1721, the Norwegian priest, Hans Egede, equipped an expedition to Greenland to convert the Greenland Vikings to Christianity, little knowing that they had long ago disappeared.

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Science in the Making: History of Greenland Ice Drilling - English
URL: http://www.aip.org/history/sloan/icedrill/

Unraveling past climate conditions by drilling through kilometers of ice is surely one of our era's grand accomplishments. Future generations will want to study how it was done but they will fail unless the participants act now to secure a high-quality historical record.

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