Why is Greenland snowy and Iceland green?

Answer 1

It has been said the earliest settlers named them this way to encourage others to seek out Greenland instead of Iceland, so they could keep Iceland for themselves.

Iceland has volcanoes and natural hot springs that warm the land and provide geothermic energy.

Answer 2

Greenland is snowy because (1) it's in the Arctic, (2) It's almost completely covered by an ice cap over a mile think.

Iceland is NOT green - while it doesn't get as much snow as Greenland it gets its share. It's more brown and/or black than green from the volcanic rock; it has very little vegatation of any kind.

Answer 3

Greenland, in the Middle Ages, was green. The same with Iceland. It was ice.

Answer 4

"The Landnámabók makes it clear that Flóki chose the uninviting name Ísland ("ice land") for the view of a distant fjord full of sea-ice that he glimpsed from a tall mountain. No doubt his choice was influenced by the fact that he was not at first taken with the land, and he bad-mouthed the place after his return to Norway. But eventually he changed his mind about it and moved there himself. The Landnámabók account is at odds with the common notion that Iceland was named for its glaciers, some of which are bigger than any in Europe.

Greenland got its name because its inhabitants sported blue-green skin from living near the sea. At least that's what Adam of Bremen wrote (in Latin) in the eleventh century"

Answer 5

when the vikings landed on Greenland,they didn't want tot be there. so when there enemies got close they named it Greenland,then the enemies' boats got destroyed in the ice. so then the Vikings went to the small country we call Iceland. that place was less icy. in order to keep way people,they named it Iceland.

Answer 6

Erik The Red and his posse called Greenland "greenland" so that everyone would move there and buy up all the land. If he called if Snowland, nobody would move out there and help expand the Viking territory. I'm half joking. But half not.

Answer 7

When they were so named, Greenland was very lush with plants and animals.

Answer 8

Wrongly named.

Answer 9

both are snowy