Category: Infrastructure
“Get out of our area!”
The north side of the Nuuk peninsula, out past the airport, used to be a wild place of rocky hills and valleys sloping…
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High living standards, free education, free health care. What’s the catch?
The other day I saw a video of someone extolling the virtues of Greenland’s living standards and free health and education systems over…
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Should I choose expensive, rude, and absent, or expensive, unsafe, and insecure?
We were getting sick of having our boat in the main marina in Nuuk. The draconian rules were designed to take advantage of…
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Greenland’s special brand of weirdness, part one: Air Transport
There’s a lot of weirdness in Greenland. Some of it is funny. Some of it is sad. Some of it is just weird….
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Don’t have a weekend medical emergency in Greenland
*‘Skadestuen’ The hospital emergency department, Nuuk One of the first panicked thoughts that flashed through my mind after breaking my leg hiking in…
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“Is the seal sleeping?”
“How high are we above sea level?” asked a middle-aged woman, as the zodiac carrying her and a half dozen other high-end tourists…
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Getting to Greenland by leaving it
About ninety percent of the tiny population of fifty-six thousand Greenlanders lives in west Greenland. East Greenland, by comparison, has fewer than three…
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How much does it cost?!
Qaanaaq, a town of almost 700 people, is the second most northerly settlement in Greenland at just over 77 degrees north. People who…
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