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Travelers come to see polar bears which, during the northern hemisphere’s summer, move closer to land as the sea-ice melts. There are also musk oxen, great flocks of migrating geese, Arctic ...
Moriusaq (also Moriussaq) is a closed settlement [1] located in the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland.It is located just east of the mouth of Granville Fjord, [2] approximately 42 km (26.1 mi) to the northwest of the Pituffik Space Base and 83 km (51.6 mi) to the southwest of Qaanaaq.
Greenland had been a protected and very isolated society until 1940. [69] Greenland was a colony, and it was believed that this society would be subjected to exploitation or even eradication if the country was opened up. Therefore, a strict monopoly on Greenlandic trade was maintained, although it was abolished in 1950. [70]
The ecoregion covers the coastal fringe of Greenland, from 75° N latitude at Melville Bay, around the northern coast to 70° N at Scoresby Bay on the east coast. The coastal bands south of this are in the Kalaallit Nunaat low arctic tundra ecoregion. The coast is rugged, although less so than the south, with deep inlets from the sea.
The comparison found that the rate of glacial retreat in Greenland during the 21st century has been twice as fast as the retreat in the 20th century. Thousands of Greenland’s glaciers are ...
Nuuk (Godthåb) by night in April 2023, Greenland's capital and by far largest city. This is a list of cities and towns in Greenland as of 1 January 2024.The term 'city' is used loosely for any populated area in Greenland, given that the most populated place is Nuuk, the capital, with 19,900 inhabitants, amounting to about 35% of the total population. [1]
But Danish royal historian Lars Hovbakke Sørensen said the king's move may have been a deliberate attempt to underline that "Greenland is a part of the Danish Realm," especially given the growing ...
American explorer Robert Peary in arctic furs. Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean.It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the northernmost point of Greenland's mainland, and Cape Bridgman in the northeast.