Greenland from the Outside In

“Does Nuuk have a chocolate factory?!” asked my son excitedly, having overheard a conversation between my husband and I. “It’s not that kind…

*Photo by Peter Mark Jacobsen. See The Fourth Continent. October swings around again, with the prospect of autumn storms, and I am reminded…

I was flicking through Air Greenland’s in-flight magazine – Suluk – when I saw an interview with Greenlandic singer Julie Berthelsen, who lives…

The whop whop whop of the helicopter blades grew in the distance. We’d been slumped, resting on the packed boxes, waiting for that…

As we sail toward Nuuk, the boat crouches in the low space beneath the hovering fog and the mirrored sea, the still water…

Imagine you lost your phone seven hundred kilometres from home on an isolated beach reachable only by sea? What do you reckon your…

Things got weird last week. Life is always weird in Greenland in one way or another, which is kind of nice generally. But…

Last Thursday, I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t get back to sleep. Then I made the fatal error…

The two boys had been playing all day and, with dinner approaching, I told my son’s friend it was time for him to…