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Qupanuk Olsen (née Egede; born 6 May 1985) is a Greenlandic YouTuber, content creator, and engineer known for her education and travel series Q's Greenland. Her content primarily focuses on Greenland 's traditions, cuisine, locales, and history.
Twice Colonized is a documentary film, directed by Lin Alluna and released in 2023. [1] The film is a co-production of companies from Canada, Denmark and Greenland, and profiles Aaju Peter, an Inuk lawyer and activist who has lived in both Greenland and Nunavut, documenting both her activism for Inuit rights and her personal struggles.
The history of Greenland is a history of life under extreme Arctic conditions: currently, an ice sheet covers about eighty percent of the island, restricting human activity largely to the coasts. The first humans are thought to have arrived in Greenland around 2500 BCE.
Another pressure for Greenland's hunters is climate change. According to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment , the largest study ever conducted on the effects of warming in the Arctic, winter temperatures above the 63rd parallel north have increased on average, by 2 to 5 Celsius over the past 50 years and could rise by yet another 10.
Scientists discovered the oldest known DNA and used it to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in the northern tip of Greenland. “The study opens the door into a past that has basically ...
Frigg Fjord (Danish: Friggs Fjord) is a fjord in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. [1]The archaeological remains in the northern shore and at the head of this fjord belong to the northernmost human settlements in human history.
Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Danish Realm, and its citizens hold Danish nationality. In 986, Erik the Red led Norse settlers to Greenland's southwest coast, where they coexisted with indigenous cultures. Greenland came under Norwegian rule in 1261 and later became part of the Kalmar Union in 1397. [12]
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