Greenland (The Era of Relative Peace)

Greenland (Danish: Grønland; Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the people") is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically associated with Europe (specifically Norway and Denmark) for about a millennium.

Greenland is, by area, the world's largest island that is not a continent, as well as the least densely populated country in the world. The bedrock in the center of Greenland has been pressed below sea level by the weight of the ice sheet. Thus, if the ice suddenly melted, much of central Greenland would be under water.

World War III
Being a Danish territory and therfore part of NATO, Greenland served as transport stops for U.S. and Canadian troop and materiel ships while transiting the vast Atlantic Ocean. This included the Royal Canadian Navy, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Merchant Marine, and parts of the Royal Navy. Thule Air Base, a U.S. Air Force base belonging to the 821st Air Base Group which located on the northeast side of the island, hosted both U.S. and Canadian C-130s and C-5As traveling from North America to Europe and CP-140 maritime patrol planes hunting for Soviet submarines in the Atlantic.