Greenland - is an island. Biggest of all, existing in a world of islands. He is a part of the Arctic Ocean, the other - in the Atlantic.
The east coast of Greenland for almost a year surrounded by floating ice, which brings here from the central part of the Arctic Ocean during the cold. No better things on the northern coast of the island - the ice deposited it all year. On the part of the South-West position less severe - the banks are washed by the warm West Greenland Current and ice, preventing the approach of the courts to these shores, almost none.