Google Street View adds Greenland Viking ruins and glacial landscapes

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Google's Street View continues to go where roads end, and the latest addition will give you a glimpse of Viking ruins and a glacial icecap.

Google has curated a few Greenland landmarks and landscapes that require you to go no further than wherever you're sitting right now.

Some of the sights include Qassiarsuk, where Erik the Red settled in 982 after his native Norway exiled him for murder. The settlement was called “Brattahlid,” which translates to "steep slope."

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There is a statue visible through Street View of the Viking explorer's son, Leif Eriksson.

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There are also great views of the Illulissat Icefjord (seen above), which was named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004, and the spot where a glacial icecap meets the ocean.

As for ruins, here is one of the best preserved landmarks from Norse culture, the Hvalsey Church.

Hvalsey Church is a church in the abandoned Greenlandic Norse settlement of Hvalsey. The best preserved Norse ruins in Greenland, the Church was also the location of the last written record of the Greenlandic Norse, a wedding in September 1408." title="Hvalsey Church" src="http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/greenland_church.jpg" alt="Hvalsey Church" width="1112" height="716" class="popout no-microcontent" />

The church was the site of a 1408 wedding between Icelandic groom Thorstein Olafsson and Greenlander bride Sigrid Björnsdottir, according to Der Spiegel. The wedding was one of the last recorded events of the settlement, which mysteriously disappeared soon after.

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