Author: Arctic Alien
Not that kind of chocolate
“Does Nuuk have a chocolate factory?!” asked my son excitedly, having overheard a conversation between my husband and I. “It’s not that kind…
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October Arctic Storms
*Photo by Peter Mark Jacobsen. See The Fourth Continent. October swings around again, with the prospect of autumn storms, and I am reminded…
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What is the difference between Greenland and Denmark? “Everything”
I was flicking through Air Greenland’s in-flight magazine – Suluk – when I saw an interview with Greenlandic singer Julie Berthelsen, who lives…
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“You can get out now,” the pilot said
The whop whop whop of the helicopter blades grew in the distance. We’d been slumped, resting on the packed boxes, waiting for that…
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Fast-fading Arctic summer
As we sail toward Nuuk, the boat crouches in the low space beneath the hovering fog and the mirrored sea, the still water…
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Lost at sea
Imagine you lost your phone seven hundred kilometres from home on an isolated beach reachable only by sea? What do you reckon your…
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Things got weird
Things got weird last week. Life is always weird in Greenland in one way or another, which is kind of nice generally. But…
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“Not for sale”
Last Thursday, I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t get back to sleep. Then I made the fatal error…
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“Dad can’t pick me up, he’s butchering a reindeer”
The two boys had been playing all day and, with dinner approaching, I told my son’s friend it was time for him to…
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