Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...

The widely reproduced map, created in 1569 ... can witness the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier calve icebergs into the sea. We know Greenland is mostly made of ice, but 10th-century Icelanders listening ...