When you first see Ittoqqortoormiit, you won’t believe your eyes. No, not quite. It will seem like a mirage. Set on a sharp rise, backed by bald mountains, the bright, multicolored homes seem completely out of place, a storybook village set in one of the fiercest environments (and climates) on earth. Getting here isn’t easy….

Two shy, charming girls about age 8 approached me with delightful smiles—one holding some flowers. I motioned to them that I would like to take their photo, and their smiles grew even broader. They didn’t appear to speak English, so I wordlessly gave them each a chocolate candy bar before waving goodbye as they scampered…

The Vikings were capable sailors who colonized a number of islands such as England, Ireland, and further north, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland. Was Greenland the only territory to have resisted the Vikings? …

Hong Kong photographer Celia Cheng took a trip to Iceland and Greenland to experience a new spark of life. Appreciating the photos of landscapes taken around the world by Cheng, many people think of her as a landscape photographer. She prefers to describe herself as a photographer who shoots “life.” “Life can include landscapes, people,…

For even the hardiest of travelers, Greenland has long been terra incognita, a place unreachable in any casual sense—basically, off the map. Which is a bit ironic, because, for any map lover or just those with a healthy sense of global curiosity, it’s probably that classic world map that hung across the blackboard in most…

Ejnar Mikkelsen was like the Ernest Shackleton of Denmark. He was celebrated throughout the Scandinavian nation for exploring and mapping Greenland. It was a matter of Danish national interest, to preserve their hegemony over Greenland, to debunk potential American claims. Of course, explorers often died while on expeditions, as was the case with Shackleton (sort…

A dare devil photographer managed to capture some uncanny shots from the inside of an ice cave in Greenland. Outdoorsman Stephan Fürnrohr, 49, from Kallmünz, Germany, took these pictures while exploring ice caves with a small team after they made their way through the margins of the Greenland ice sheet. Stephan and his team spent one…

Scientists have found new evidence that the Renland Ice Cap in eastern Greenland has grown and shrank repeatedly over the past 12,000 years, at times becoming smaller than its current state. In a paper first-authored by Aaron K. Medford of the University of Maine, the team detailed its radiocarbon dating of plant remains uncovered as…

Commentary This month there was an unusual amount of international attention given to the Greenland Election. This is a vast country with a tiny population of only 56,000. Every year, Denmark transfers $740 million to help fund the government. This is a huge amount of money—representing about 25 percent of GDP or 46 percent of…

HELSINKI—Greenland’s main opposition party, which is against an international mining project involving uranium and other metals on the Arctic island, has emerged as the biggest party after winning more than a third of votes in an early parliamentary election, according to initial results. With nearly all votes counted Wednesday, the left-leaning Community of the People…