Greenland from the Outside In

Old Man and the Sea

It was a lot of meat. I had stopped by the gate leading down to the pier to look at the large plastic…

Two black rocks untouched by time’s ancient hands

After my first experiences with the pristine, ancient rocks in Greenland, geological field work in tropical northern Australia was a shock. The rocks…

‘Winterize’

Before moving to Greenland, I did not know that the word ‘winter’ could be made into a verb. I had never ‘winterized’ anything…

My son, the orange roughy

There is always an element of slapstick when my son dons his bright orange dry suit. He wasn’t particularly keen on it when…

A dream lost

The job advertisement all but leapt from the page. It was exactly what I’d been looking for all these years since we left…

“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…

Autumn days

The tumbling, rushing water dives over a rocky ledge and into a dark pool. There is a flash of silver as a fish…

Where have you been?

I had all but forgotten that I was expecting a new credit card from Australia. So when I finally received it, I looked…

Together alone

Greenland is the least densely populated country in the world. Even when you subtract the inland ice, which accounts for about 80% of…