Northeast Greenland National Park is the biggest national park in the world. It was established by the Danish government in 1974 and later expanded in 1988.
Today it covers about 972,000 km² – an area 100 times the size of Yellowstone. It is the only national park in Greenland and the first national park created within the Kingdom of Denmark.
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Roughly 80 percent of the park is blanketed by the Greenland Ice Sheet, the world’s second-largest ice mass after the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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Despite its extreme conditions, the park supports a variety of Arctic wildlife. Species found here include polar bear, Arctic fox, musk ox, walrus, seals, and Greenland wolf.
Numerous seabirds also inhabit the region, including ducks, geese, gulls, skuas, puffins, and shorebirds, such as sandpipers and plovers. Offshore waters provide habitat for marine mammals, such as the narwhal and beluga whale.
