The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of 1.67 km thick, and over 3 km thick at its maximum. It is almost 2,900 kilometres long in a north–south direction, with a maximum width of 1,100 kilometres at a latitude of 77°N, near its northern edge. The ice sheet covers 1,710,000 square kilom…The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of 1.67 km thick, and over 3 km thick at its maximum. It is almost 2,900 kilometres long in a north–south direction, with a maximum width of 1,100 kilometres at a latitude of 77°N, near its northern edge. The ice sheet covers 1,710,000 square kilometres, around 80% of the surface of Greenland, or about 12% of the area of the Antarctic ice sheet. The term 'Greenland ice sheet' is often shortened to GIS or GrIS in scientific literature.
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