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This was done to confuse the enemy at one time. I am probably totally off on this but it's what I learned years ago.
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As it should turn out, Erik the Red, early real-estate scammer, "named the land Greenland, saying that people would be eager to go there if it had a good name."
Sort of like the builders in my neighborhood, who cut down all the trees (couple of firs and a lot of scrub oak) on a lot and called it "Maple Cove."
Naturally,
R.O.
PS. You can read about it
here.