*Still image from ‘Camp Century’ film (1963) Greenland is a big place. Things get lost, forgotten, hidden, and some things noone ever notices. Last week was the fiftieth anniversay of a catastrophic event, the details of which were not public until an investigation by the Danish parliament almost thirty years later. On the afternoon …
Month: January 2018
As I fell, I heard my leg snap beneath me, and the sound of myself screaming. Since Greenland achieved self-rule in 2009, one of the few areas remaining under Danish jurisdiction is the military – Arctic Command, responsible for search and rescue operations, amongst other things. Arctic Command has a helicopter on permanent lease from …
Air Greenland is the proud owner of the world’s oldest operational helicopter – a nineteen-seater Sikorsky S-61. Well, in truth probably every component in the helicopter has been replaced multiple times in its history, aside from the fuselage. But there has, nonetheless, been a continuity of fifty years for this one machine. In 2015, Air …
Last winter the snowfall in Nuuk was more than locals could remember for decades. It snowed and it snowed. By the time we returned from our Christmas holiday, the stairs leading to our front door were buried thigh-deep. The balcony was already an intimidating snow-clearing task and it only got worse. My husband dug out …
We moved to Greenland in mid winter, almost three years ago today. Our son, then five, was culture-shocked by his sudden transposition from Australian summer to an icy darkness where he could no longer communicate with any of his peers. So one of our first priorities was to get him socialising with other kids. On …