Is there evidence that mainland Greenland is not actually one, but several islands?

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Is there evidence that mainland Greenland is not actually one, but several islands?

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Here is a statement about more than one island in Greenland:

Since the 1950s, scientists have postulated that the ice sheet covering the country may actually conceal three separate island land masses that have been bridged by glaciers over the last geologic cooling period

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland

May 10 2010, 6:24 PM

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The Greenland ice sheet is 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) thick and broad enough to blanket an area the size of Mexico. The ice is so massive that its weight presses the bedrock of Greenland below sea level and is so all-concealing that not until recently did scientists discover that Greenland might actually be three islands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Greenland

Is there evidence that mainland Greenland is not actually one, but several islands?

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