What’s the deal with Greenland?

I clearly recall the factoid from high school geography that Iceland was purposefully deceptively named and actually is quite green, and that Greenland is largely a huge slab of ice. Though not quite as icy as it used to be. But more on less ice later.Greenland, lodged conveniently between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, is the world’s largest island, though very sparsely populat...