Matt Barrow wrote:
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I see by the map that Greenland has a few small towns and an USAF base, all
right on the coast. Population is 56K, population of Iceland is 297K five
times more.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/gl.html

What am I missing?

I do not know, I was not talking about populations either.
I was answering a poster who claimed that Iceland had been depopulated
because of climate sometime after the settlement period, something that
never happened.
He referred to both Iceland and Greenland and then you felt compelled
to inform me that Iceland is not Greenland, something that I knew
already, as I live right here in Iceland.
No, I do not know what you are missing.

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Iceland is not Greenland. Iceland is warmed by ocean currents and has been
inhabited for centuries, unlike Greenland which is pretty much
un-inhabitable ANYMORE except on very limited scale (non-self-supporting).

I know that, but the original poster does not seem to have known that
and it seems quite common misconception that both countries were
uninhabited for long periods.
Greenland has actually quite large areas that are quite inhabitable but
the island is so large that those areas are only a very small part of
the total size of the country. I belive that the "green" areas in
Greenland may well be larger than the "green" areas of Iceland.