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Visiting Greenland
An adventure and a half!
Introduction
Many years ago, back in the 1990s, we visited Greenland. At that time, it was a quiet island of little importance to anyone but the local Greenlanders and the Kingdom of Denmark.
Today, Greenland is in the news and on the “wanted list” like never before! That’s what prompted me to dig out our slides and share my experience of this little-known country.
Okay, I’m going to admit that lenses and cameras weren’t anything like as high quality as they are today. So, although we had among the best at the time, these photos do look less than the quality you’d want nowadays.
Nevertheless, I invite you to buckle up for an adventure to East Greenland.
Background
For 10 months of the year, the rugged east coast is landlocked by pack ice. We visited in summer, flying first to Reykjavik, Iceland, then on to Kulusuk in East Greenland, just north of the Arctic Circle.
From there, a 10-minute helicopter flight took us to Ammassalik, the only town of any size on the east coast, which had a population of 1300 at that time.
What we saw was the spectacular scenery of high, jagged mountains, sweeping glaciers, icebergs galore, and the colourful houses typical of…
