Greenland from the Outside In

*Painting by Minannguaq Zeeb You know how it goes. You get into a casual conversation with someone you’ve not met before. They…

There are many frustrations about living in Greenland – some small, some not so small. One of the small ones is that Greenland…

October is late in the year to be sailing. It’s cold. An icy rind is forming around the shore and a blanket of…

A Greenlandic taxi driver picked me up for the ten minute drive into town. On the way I gazed at the calm water…

Owning a boat is an unrivalled way of experiencing Greenland’s natural beauty. It’s also an effective and efficient way of getting into a…

My family and I are outsiders. We speak English. Our eight year old son speaks fluent Danish; I speak reasonable Danish; my husband…

Fishing in Greenland is like, well, shooting fish in a barrel. I grew up spending my Christmas holidays in Australia, on the beach…

*Photograph by Elis Hoffman. There is a brief moment in the early Greenlandic summer when a confluence of factors make it seem that…