Greenland Favorites

get a window seat in the air...

by inuit

get a window seat in the air plane taking you to Greenland or flying inside Greenland. The view of icebergs or the icecaps is amazing. flying from Kangerlesuaq to Thule in end of April 2001 I took photos of the frozen sea. Cracks have already opened in the ice tissue.

try to arrange going out with...

by inuit

try to arrange going out with Inuit hunters for hunting expeditions on the open sea. They look for seals for many hours and some times days. Its not and easy thing to join them spending many hours out in the cold wind. I was a 'guest' of an Inuit hunter called Joseph. He lives in siropaluk - the northern most human setllment on earth. He smoked his pipe driving his tiny motor boat, navigating between the ice bergs and cracks in the frozen sea of May 2001.

visit in winter time and go...

by inuit

visit in winter time and go out for a dogs sledge tour or expedition. You can do it from few hours up to one week. The sledged and and dogs are driven by Inuit hunters. You can not do it alone. While driving the dogs and sledges on the frozen sea of north west Greenland we have arrived a huge iceberg rising from the sea ice tissue. It was shining blue in the sunshine.

I thought this shot was...

by Vanislander

I thought this shot was amazing. Looks cloudy right?Its very hard to see but the pilot came on and said that this was actually snow,it was clear below!There where mountins 15000 feet high, with 10000 feet of snow on top, equaling 25000 feet above sea level. We were at 41000 ft high for a usual plane flight.

Travel_Gal's General Tip

by Travel_Gal

When I was in Thule, the water in the harbour was still frozen solid. Walking on the ice, I went over to this iceberg, and was able to touch it which was such an awesome feeling. The colours were so blue and green, and the ice that I was walking on was so smooth, smoother than anything I'd ever seen, before or since.

Owing to the country's large...

by ClaesDenmark

Owing to the country's large landmass there are huge variations with regard to both humidity and temperature. Climatologically, a distinction is made between a northern high-arctic, middle low-arctic and southern subarctic zone. The richest plant growth is found in the subarctic belt, which includes only the very southernmost part of Greenland. Here, there are low-lying tracts of forest with birch scrub, while in the low-arctic area one finds dense, tall willow scrub. In the high-arctic area, there is only low-lying vegetation of arctic willow, in addition to many expanses of moorland, marsh and ponds.

In 1721, with the aid of the...

by ClaesDenmark

In 1721, with the aid of the Danish king, a Norwegian priest called Hans Egede successfully mounted an expedition to Greenland, where he wished to rechristianize the Northerners. Greenland did not become part of Denmark before in 1953. The colonial age was at an end, and like the Faeroe Islands, Greenland too was now given two members in The Folketing (the Danish parliament).As Danish citizens, the Greenlandic people now had ordinary civic rights and their general state of health and educational facilities were radically improved.

DX Activation

by 38IR0

Go and look...you will know why HO HO HOO SANTA and all the snow and ice

Land and Space

by shiran_d

Try and see the artic foxes...

by ron-g2u

Try and see the artic foxes and rabbits. Seeing the first sun after months of darkness.