Greenland

Greenland Today

Once I heard a person not born in Greenland tell that Australia was the world's largest island and its population was proud of it. Not so strange because a ...

Vikings and Settlement

At the time when the Irish had discovered Iceland and started regular sailings there, boatbuilding and skill in navigation were also developing on the west coas...

Music on the Rise

Greenland is the world's largest island with a total area of 2,166,086 square kilometers; it is also one of the world's least densely populated. It also offers ...

Natural Resources

Greenland is the world's largest island and hosts many geological environments. Even though over 80 percent of the country is covered by ice there is a mosaic o...

Political Development

Greenland is in Nordic terms an independent area of the Danish Kingdom and is governed by the Danish constitution. The Greenlandic political system consists of...

The Nuuk Art Museum

The Nuuk Art Museum was opened the 22nd of May 2005 in the former Adventist church on Kissarneqqoortuunn- guaq Street in Nuuk with a total exhibition area of 40...

ICC in Greenland

Greenland's indigenous people are the Inuit.  Inuit have lived in Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Chukotka, Russia for millennia. The artificial borders that wer...

Tourism

Greenland's contrast filled nature and its exciting culture continues to attract more a more guests from Denmark and from outside the country. Tourism is today ...

Real Greenlanders

I spoke with a friend a while back, an older Greenlander. During the conversation he used the phrase "real Greenlanders" several times. It can't be avoided that...

My Arctic Cuisine

I cultivate my Arctic cuisine from a "garden" filled with the taste and aroma found in the delightful Greenlandic natural products from both the sea and from Gr...

The Greenland Church

Christianity was introduced to South and Central Greenland in the Norse period around 1000AD which provided the occasion for holding the millennium church servi...

Greenlandic Arts and Crafts

Greenlandic art has existed throughout the history of the Inuit, an art bound up with the world of ideas and the way of life of the people of Greenland. The kay...

Fishing and Hunting

Today, fishing is Greenland's most important industry, providing the country with the largest portion of its export income. Fishing replaced the more traditiona...

East Greenland

The East Greenlanders' uniqueness from the rest of the country is clearly reflected in the language and culture of the region. The language of East Greenland is...