The Greenland ice sheet is the second-largest body of ice in the world, averaging 1,673 meters thick and reaching over 3,488 meters at its maximum. It stretches almost 2,900 kilometers north to south, with a maximum width of 1,100 kilometers, and covers 1,710,000 square kilometers, about 80 percent of Greenland's surface and roughly 12 percent of the area of the Antarctic ice sheet.
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Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark; the ice sheet covers around 80% of its surface.
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Ice sheets form through a process of glaciation.
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It is an average of 1,673 m (5,489 ft) thick and over 3,488 m (11,444 ft) thick at its maximum.
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It is almost 2,900 kilometres (1,800 mi) long in a north-south direction, with a maximum width of 1,100 kilometres (680 mi) at a latitude of 77°N, near its northern edge.
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The ice sheet covers 1,710,000 square kilometres (660,000 sq mi), around 80% of the surface of Greenland, or about 12% of the area of the Antarctic ice sheet.
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covers 1,710,000 square kilometres (660,000 sq mi), around 80% of the surface of Greenland.
Associated With: Denmark, Lead section
covers 1,710,000 square kilometres (660,000 sq mi), around 80% of the surface of Greenland.
Shaped By: Glaciation, Lead section
Ice sheets form through a process of glaciation, when the local climate is sufficiently cold that snow is able to accumulate from year to year.
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