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eider down, furs, and cryolite are exported. For administrative purposes Green land, or rather its coast, is divided into two inspectorates of North and South Green land. The residences of the inspectors are at Disco Island and Godhaab, but the most populous district is Julianshaab. Green land was discovered by an Ice lander named Gunnbjorn about 876 or 877, and was colonized from Ice- Jand about the end of the 10th century. In the reign of Hlizabeth, Frobisher and Davis rediscovered the coast, but nothing was done to explore it till the Danish government in 1721 a isted Hans Egede, a clergyman, to establish a European mi ion settlement, Good Hope (Godhaab), which was succe fully carried on by him and his son. Whale fisheries were established on the coast by the English and Dutch about 1590. ‘The interior of the country wus first cro ed from E. to W. by Nansen in 1888.