If there was a contest for the most surreal geographic name of a region on our planet, Greenland would have taken first place. Its name, which means “Green Earth” (Groenland in ancient Norse) was based entirely on a deliberate lie.

Or, rather, on an early attempt at… aggressive marketing by Henry the Red, who first discovered this huge frozen island, the largest in the world, covering an area of 2.166 million square kilometres. More than 16 times the size of Greece.