This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today we arrived in Sisimiut, the second largest city in Greenland. Sisimiut translates to “where the foxholes are” — apparently when the town was being expanded, there were foxholes all over the place. Not sure what the story is today. Anyway the population…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today we visited Ilulissat, Greenland’s most famous town and the third largest by population with 4500 people. Of course, as long as we are examining population, I should mention that there are also 2500 sled dogs. These dogs are used by fishermen in…
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This is part of a series called Nordic Sojourn 2022 Today, we visited the most isolated town in one of the most isolated countries in the world — Ittoqqortoormiit in Greenland (the nearest town is about 500 miles away!). It is located on the north side of the mouth of Scoresby Sound, the entrance to…
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This is part of a series called Nordic Sojourn 2022 Today we made it to Greenland. Even though it is well south of the polar ice pack we visited, it is 10-15 degrees colder here. That’s because Svalbard has the Gulf Stream that skirts it, while Greenland gets the cold polar currents from the north. …
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