Which sentence can BEST follow and support sentence 9?

(It is a rich environment for research)
A Since most of the island is frozen, it is a sparsely populated country that is home to less than
60,000 people.
® As a surprise to many people, the country is more than three times the size of the state of
Texas.
It has an ice sheet that is nearly two miles thick in some areas, making it the second-largest
ice body in the world.
One might think that Greenland is mostly green, but the name of the country is actually quite
misleading.

A Since most of the island is frozen, it is a sparsely populated country that is home to less than 60,000 people.