Greenland

[GSD4ME]

What continent is Greenland on? Is it European? part of The Americas? if the Arctic - is the Arctic a continent?

[jno]

it's usually shown as North America. The Arctic is a sea, not a continent - there's just water under the ice, unlike Antarctica, which has land under its ice.

[SteveD]

All you want to know about Greenland:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gl.html

[cml]

Greenland is part of the North American continent, although it is a territory of Denmark.
Iceland is geographically part of Europe so in crossing the relatively narrow Denmark straits between Iceland and Greenland, you have technically crossed the Atlantic.
Iceland is geogically split in half. The continental plates join in the west of the country - there is a trench west of Reykjavik which, if you stand on one side you are on the American continental plate but if you jump to the other side of the ditch you stand on the European/Asian plate. The plates are drifting apart at roughly 1ft per decade, so straddling the ditch is not recommended for long periods !

[KARL]

Not trying to split hairs but just clarify to avoid anyone's unintentional propagation of slight errors. The Arctic is the area north of the Arctic Circle - both land and sea on all the continents involved. The Antarctic is similarly defined. The separation between the plates runs more or less diagonally through Iceland NE-SW.