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What did the Vikings find in Greenland?
Where did the Vikings set up camp in Greenland?
What did the Vikings establish in Greenland?
What was the population of the Viking settlement at its peak?
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How long did the Viking settlement in Greenland prosper before disappearing?
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What has drawn hundreds of scientists, including McGovern, to Greenland each summer?
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What did McGovern primarily study to understand the lives and deaths of the Greenland Vikings?
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What information did the garbage heaps provide about the lives of the Greenland Vikings?
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Why are ice sheets considered a treasure trove for climate scientists?
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What is the purpose of analyzing ice-trapped particles by climate scientists?
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What did the analysis of ice samples from Greenland reveal about the temperature when the Vikings first arrived?
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What did scientists qualify the period as when the Vikings had vanished?
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Where was the segment of ice sheet drilled for analysis located?
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What was the width of the 3000-meter-long cylinder of ice extracted for analysis?
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What university houses Jim White's light stable isotope lab?
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