Parks & Reserves: Northeast Greenland National Park

As the world's largest national park, the Northeast Greenland National Park is a marvel of "enormous tundra areas, spectacular mountains and deep fjords filled with icebergs," with 80% of the park's area covered with the Greenland Ice Sheet. "Since hunting has been prohibited for many decades, the animal populations thrive in the National Park", including polar bears, walruses, narwhals, Arctic wolves, muskoxen, and lemmings. Well-adapted birds such as the great northern diver, barnacle goose, pink-footed goose, common eider, and snowy owl all make their home within the park. The Danish government, which has jurisdiction over the region, founded Northeast Greenland National Park in 1974. In the 1980s, the park was expanded to its present size, covering a massive area of 972,000 square kilometers.