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ABSTRACT AT the present day the name “Greenland” is limited to the great island lying to the east of Arctic America. Formerly, however, it included an undefined territory of Arctic and


sub-Arctic Europe, extending eastward, according to some estimates, into north-western Siberia. Sir William Martin Conway has shown (Hakluyt Series, 1904) that during the seventeenth


century, in Britain and the neighbouring countries, “Greenland” primarily denoted Spitsbergen. Even in the year 1812 the leading London publishers were selling a school-book which, ignoring


the word “Spitsbergen ” altogether, applied to that group of islands the sole name of “Greenland.” Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content,


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