Greenland from the Outside In

Foreigners taking Greenlanders’ jobs

I was at a cafemik this week – coffee and cake at a friend’s house, to celebrate a birthday. There were a lot…

Geological mapping in Greenland – same, same

Geological mapping hasn’t really changed very much in the hundred and fifty odd years that geologists have been producing maps in earnest. Sixteen…

Cake with the All-Party Parliamentary Group and tea at Westminster

*Another startled Greenlandic resident – a tupilak from the Nuuk Art Museum One meets diverse and unexpected people in Greenland at diverse and…

The silent journey home

I remember, about fifteen years ago, when map-based GPS units were introduced to the Air Greenland helicopter fleet. It was the end of…

One advantage of not having a car

Our son still laments the loss of dad’s ‘fast car’ that we had to leave behind in Australia when we moved to Greenland….

Beneath the surface

Fiskefjord is a long, narrow gash-like fjord north of Nuuk that cuts its way toward the inland ice. Islands break its watery path….

Who cares if we caused climate change?

*Australian January mean temperature anomaly (Australian Bureau of Meteorology) with overlaid Standardized Melt Index for the Greenland Ice Sheet (National Snow and Ice…

Not so different

When I was a kid, we spent the long summer holidays in a caravan park by a lake that opened to the Pacific…

Seconds count

Walking along the street toward work in the morning darkness, I watched the seconds on my phone stopwatch slowly tick toward 8:15am. Only…