Pond Inlet came out in style to show Meet the North their love for Canada’s national sport. Residents showed off their handmade jerseys as well as other hockey paraphernalia. See how Pond Inlet showcases hockey pride in the latest post for National Geographic. With the Stanley Cup playoffs in full swing, fans all over the…
In this dispatch for National Geographic’s Explorer’s Journal, Meet the North takes you to the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, a strip of land that has had a lasting impact on the north. This area represents a much larger story of relationships between different Arctic people and how the north was settled. Though the landscape…
Meet the North introduces you to some of the amazing people they’ve met along the way. This Above and Beyond – Canada’s Arctic Journal piece profiles these stories from a men’s choir in Iceland to a celebration in Pond Inlet. By meeting one person at a time, and by asking that person to introduce us to someone…
Meet the North gives you a look at Pond Inlet, an Arctic community with a deep love for Canada’s game. This BBC Travel piece introduces you to the die-hard hockey fans of this Nunavut community as they receive a guest of honour – the Stanley Cup. It is often said ice hockey is more than just…
Take the road less travelled as Meet the North diverges from Iceland’s ring road to explore the Melrakkaslétta peninsula. This BBC Travel piece introduces you to unique characters and beautiful landmarks in the country’s often overlooked northeast corner. “You don’t want to take that road. It’s flat and featureless. It’s of no interest.” But by leaving…
In this instalment, Arctic Deeply gives you a look into an Icelandic town vying for its place in the global market, not with tourism but with transport. Siggeir Stefánsson introduces us to Þórshöfn, his small Icelandic fishing town which he hopes to diversify in order to keep afloat. “If you live in Reykjavik, you can choose from 100 kinds of…
In Meet the North’s most recent Arctic Deeply story, meet the man behind Iceland’s Arctic Henge. The late Erlingur B. Thoroddsen dreamt of sharing the beauty he saw in the small town of Raufarhöfn through his ‘hobby.’ Thoroddsen explained that the entire structure would be made from locally quarried stone and surrounded by representations of 72 dwarves…
Meet the North’s latest Arctic Deeply story brings you into the workshop of two of Greenland’s traditional sealskin crafters. Soriina Davidsen and Vera Larsen explain the highs and lows of a controversial craft with a longstanding place in the country’s history. Davidsen and her coworker, Vera Larsen, spend long days here cutting, stitching and talking. The pair…
Arctic Deeply ventures to Jan Mayen island to meet the 18 people who compose Norway’s most isolated community. Learn more about Siw Landro, who works as the island’s nurse, librarian and everything in between. Siw Landro fell in love, again, when she arrived on Jan Mayen, Norway. Siw has a partner and children back home, but Mr. Beerenberg…
Check out our latest Arctic Deeply story: Learn with Meet the North as two of Nunavut’s foremost language experts explain how Inuktitut has evolved for the digital age. The Inuktitut word for internet, “ikiaqqijjut,” is often translated as “the tool to travel through layers.” But Eva stresses that it needs more explanation. “The idea is that…