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There is no one there

The landscapes are amazing

 

 The light is incredible

 

It is culturally interesting

 

 

 Greenlandic tapas in Nuuk

Tasermiut-Fjord--South-Greenland

 

 

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The settlement of Qassiarsuk in Greenland was once probably the site of Brattahlid, the home of Viking Leif Erikson, whose statue watches over the area

 

 

In AD 985, Erik the Red established a colony in Greenland after being exiled from Iceland. At the time, the North Atlantic region was unusually warm – the so-called medieval warm period – but after a massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1257, conditions became much colder for several centuries, a period known as the little ice age.

 

 

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Greenland is becoming a 'green' land as melting ice is replaced with vegetation

 

 

Sehested Fjord – Greenland’s fjords are an incredible sight to see by small cruise ship and even more intimately, by Zodiac cruiser. Photo: Yosef Wosk

Located north of the Arctic Circle, Ilulissat is one of the most scientifically important of the Greenland fjords

Ilulissat Icefjord: A UNESCO World Heritage Site

Kong Oscar Fjord in the Northeast Greenland National Park is known for excellent Zodiac cruising and hiking.

 

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Greenland’s glaciers

 Nuuk , Greenland’s capital

 

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The town of Kulusuk in East Greenland

Kulusuk (old spelling: Qulusuk), formerly Kap Dan, is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland, located on an island of the same name. The settlement population of 241 includes many Danes choosing to live there due to the airport.  In the Kalaallisut language, the name of the village means "Chest of a Black Guillemot".

A rainstorm in the distance, as viewed from Disko Bay, Greenland.

 

The spectacular Northern Lights

 

 Feeling hot (hot, hot!) in the natural springs

The land of the Midnight Sun

 sunny phenomenon from late April to late August every year

 

 Top of Mount Greenland.

The top of Mount Greenland is the summit of Gunnbjørn Fjeld, which is the highest point in Greenland and the Arctic: 

• Elevation: 3,694 meters (12,119 ft)
• Location: In the Watkins Range on the east coast of Greenland, 40 miles (65 km) inland from the Blosseville Coast
• Features: Named after a 9th-century Icelandic voyager, Gunnbjørn Fjeld is surrounded by several large glaciers that descend to the Denmark Strait 

The summit of Gunnbjørn Fjeld is the highest point on the Island of Greenland, Kalaallit Nunaat, the Kingdom of Denmark, and the entire Arctic.

 

Mt. Gunnbjörn - The Highest Peak in Greenland

 

Greenland’s highest mountain Mt. Gunnbjörn is also the highest peak located north of the Arctic Circle. Therefore, it does not just hold the title of being the highest peak in Greenland but is also the highest peak of the Arctic (3694 m/12120 ft).

 

 

Mt. Gunnbjørn,

the tallest mountain in Greenland,

from the center flowline of Kong Christian IV Glacier

Credits  Joe MacGregor / NASA

 

 

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Icebergs on the Ilulissat Icefjord, western Greenland

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 Greenland Fjord

 

Colossal icebergs are floating at sunset in the Disko Bay. 

 

Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the Kalaallit (Greenlanders)," the largest island in the world, is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. Greenland has no land boundaries and 24,430 miles (39,330 km) of coastline, a distance roughly equivalent to the Earth's circumference at the Equator.

 

 

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Etymology

The name Greenland comes from Scandinavian settlers. In the Icelandic sagas, it is said that Norwegian-born Erik the Red was exiled from Iceland for murder. He, along with his extended family and thralls, set out in ships to find the land that was rumored to be to the northwest. After settling there, he named the land Grænland ("Greenland"), possibly in order to attract more people to settle there. 

 

Greenland was also called Gruntland ("Ground-land") and Engronelant (or Engroneland) on early maps. Whether green is an erroneous transcription of grunt ("ground"), which refers to shallow bays, or vice versa, is not known. It should also be noted, however, that the southern portion of Greenland (not covered by glacier) is indeed very green in the summer, and was likely to have been even greener in Erik's time because of the Medieval Warm Period.

 

View from Ravnefjeldet, next to Nanortalik, Greenland

 

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Hunting and whaling have always been important ways to make a living on Greenland.

Polar bear hunter, 1904.

 

Icebergs at Cape York, Greenland

 

A polarbear on Greenland's eastern coast

 

Alaska Natives increasingly prefer to be known by the names they use in their own languages, such as Inupiaq or Yupik. "Inuit" is now the current term in Alaska and across the Arctic, and "Eskimo" is fading from use. The Inuit Circumpolar Council prefers the term "Inuit" but some other organizations use "Eskimo".

 

Eskimo (/ˈɛskɪmoʊ/) is an exonym that refers to two closely related Indigenous peoples: Inuit (including the Alaska Native Iñupiat, the Canadian Inuit, and the Greenlandic Inuit) and the Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern Siberia and Alaska. A related third group, the Aleut, who inhabit the Aleutian Islands, are generally excluded from the definition of Eskimo. The three groups share a relatively recent common ancestor, and speak related languages belonging to the family of Eskaleut languages.

 

These circumpolar peoples have traditionally inhabited the Arctic and subarctic regions from eastern Siberia (Russia) to Alaska (United States), Northern Canada, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, and Greenland.

Some Inuit, Yupik, Aleut, and other individuals consider the term Eskimo, which is of a disputed etymology, to be pejorative or even offensive. Eskimo continues to be used within a historical, linguistic, archaeological, and cultural context. The governments in Canada  and the United States have made moves to cease using the term Eskimo in official documents, but it has not been eliminated, as the word is in some places written into tribal, and therefore national, legal terminology. 

 

Canada officially uses the term Inuit to describe the indigenous Canadian people who are living in the country's northern sectors and are not First Nations or Métis. 

 

The United States government legally uses Alaska Native  for enrolled tribal members of the Yupik, Inuit, and Aleut, and also for non-Eskimos including the Tlingit, the Haida, the Eyak, and the Tsimshian, in addition to at least nine northern Athabaskan/Dene peoples. Other non-enrolled individuals also claim Eskimo/Aleut descent, making it the world's "most widespread aboriginal group".   

 

There are between 171,000 and 187,000 Inuit and Yupik, the majority of whom live in or near their traditional circumpolar homeland. Of these, 53,785 (2010) live in the United States, 70,545 (2021) in Canada, 51,730 (2021) in Greenland and 1,657 (2021) in Russia. In addition, 16,730 people living in Denmark were born in Greenland. The Inuit Circumpolar Council, a non-governmental organization (NGO), claims to represent 180,000 people.

 

In the Eskaleut language family, the Eskimo branch has an Inuit language sub-branch, and a sub-branch of four Yupik languages. Two Yupik languages are used in the Russian Far East as well as on St. Lawrence Island, and two in western Alaska, southwestern Alaska, and western Southcentral Alaska. The extinct Sirenik language is sometimes claimed to be related.

 

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An Inuit family (1917)

Eskimo or Inuit family in traditional national clothes in front of igloo

 

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Location map of Greenland

 

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Kalaallit Nunaat (the Inuit name for the island) is not an independent state but a self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark. Greenland shares maritime borders with Canada, Iceland, and Norway.

Greenland has a quite small population, just about 56,100 (in 2016) people live on an area of 2,166,086 km²; this makes the island the least densely populated place on earth, apart from the Antarctic. The 12th largest geographic entity in the world is almost four times the size of France, or slightly more than three times the size of the U.S. state of Texas.

 

Capital City: Nuuk (Godthab, Godthåb)

Government:
Type: Parliamentary Democracy within a constitutional monarchy.
Dependency status: Part of the Kingdom of Denmark; self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark since 1979.

 

Political system
Greenland is a self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark with a multi-party system. Head of state is the monarch of Denmark, represented by a High Commissioner. Head of government is the Prime Minister (Premier), elected by Parliament. The Parliament of Greenland is the country's legislative branch.

 

People:
Nationality: noun: Greenlander(s)
adjective: Greenlandic
Population: 56,100 (2016)
Ethnic Groups: Greenlander 88% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 12% (2000)

 

Background:
In the 18th century Danes began to colonize the island and in 1953 Greenland was made an integral part of Denmark.

In 1978 the Danish parliament granted Greenland self-government and in the following year the law went into effect.

Denmark continues to exercise control of Greenland's foreign affairs, but Greenland actively participates in international agreements relating to Greenland.

In 1973 Greenland joined the European Union with Denmark but withdrew in 1985 over a dispute over stringent fishing quotas.

 

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Scoresby Sound, a large fjord system in south east coast of Greenland.

 

Katuaq cultural center in Nuuk, Greenland's capital city.

 

 

Products of Greenland
Royal Greenland
The world's largest producer of cold water prawns also specialized in fishing and processing quality seafood.

Tasiilaq is the largest of the few communities on the sparsely populated eastern coast of Greenland.

 

University of Greenland. Greenland's only university is located in Nuuk.

 

Northern lights in Greenland.

 

Northern lights or Aurora Borealis, a phenomen that appeares around the Earth's magnetic pole.

 

Auroras are produced when the solar wind hits the magnetosphere,

the resulting ionization emits light of varying color and complexity.

 

East Greenland landscape west of Myggbukta.

 

Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund), East Greenland

 

Ittoqqortoormiit, formerly known as Scoresbysund, is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland. Its population is 452 as of 2013.

 

The former name Scoresbysund derives from the Arctic explorer and whaler William Scoresby, who was the first to map the area in 1822.

 

The name "Ittoqqortoormiit" means "Big-House Dwellers" in the Eastern Greenlandic dialect. The region is known for its wildlife, including polar bears, muskoxen, and seals. Each year only a few tourist ships reach this remote settlement, and it could be discussed how the future of the settlement could be more closely connected to the management of the Greenland national park in some distance to the North and thereby could be made more attractive for tourism.