Goodnight from the land of blazing skies. Many Greenlanders grew up afraid of the aurora. Some children were told that they could come down from the sky and grab you. One man shared what he was taught: if you whistle at the northern lights, they will decapitate you. Sweet dreams. It has been wonderful to…
Just because … Sending our best and cutest from the north. #meetthenorth #puppylove #husky #greenlandicsleddog #greenlandicdog #dog #bbctravel #lovetheworld #cute #ilulissat #greenland #lovethatface #lindbladexpeditions
Post 1 of 2. When Ole got his first motorbike, he went north while all of his friends went south. He visited northern Norway and has never stopped with the north. He’s been to the Faroe Islands and Iceland. He lives in Greenland now, and his wife is from here. Now that he is 62,…
Post 2 of 2. “This one is by a Danish guy . . . He made the forest, and then one day his Greenlandic wife phoned him and said, ‘Is it okay that I have been making some icebergs on your forest?’ And he said, ‘Well, yes’, and so it was. They are living in…
Portrait of Climate Change. Home grown potatoes in Ilulissat, Greenland. Ole Gamst-Pedersen, the curator of the art museum grew them himself. “This wouldn’t have been possible ten years ago.” Not quite the gorgeous pastels of @zarialynn that help us see how precious ice is, but I’ve never met a potato that gave me so much…
Ilulissat. Where all the beauty comes at once. Sun setting. Moon rising. Ice glowing. And the aurora can’t even wait for darkness. @paulzizkaphoto @davebrosha #lindbladexpeditions #lovetheworld #diskobay #arctic #ilulissat #greenland #bbctravel #aurora #auroraborealis #auroraboreale #northernlights #icefjord #jacobshavn #unesco #upallnight
Hello Ilulissat! We are here in the Disko Bay area of West Greenland with perfect weather. It’s time to explore the trails and the town. Stay tuned. #meetthenorth #lindbladexpeditions #greenland #ilulissat #arctic #diskobay #townlife
Nuka K. Godtfredsen is the creator of four graphic novels about Greenland’s history from the early Inuit migrations to contact with the Norse. He begins with a manuscript, then a storyboard, then the drawings. Each two-page spread takes a month to complete. Nuka researches every detail from fashion to ship’s rigging, hunting equipment, and castle…
“These are called the treasure chambers, this is almost like open storage. This is from a strange time period. It’s from a non-time, it doesn’t have any dynamics. It’s a static view of what the Arctic is in this room. We just get this non-time with no-time dimension, with no development, with no past with…
“Education has helped me to express what I feel inside,” said Jens Heinrich, an historian and political advisor to Greenlandic members of the Danish Parliament and a former member of the Greenlandic Reconciliation Commission. He is both Danish and Greenlandic. In Denmark, he says, “There is a lack of knowledge about Greenland, a lack of…