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Greenland
After almost 300 years under Danish rule, the island of Greenland has just taken a big step toward sovereignty. Greenland passed a referendum last year requesting more powers from Copenhagen, and it was granted, taking effect on June 21st, 2009. Denmark still retains control of finances, foreign affairs, and defense, but will phase out an annual subsidy, and give over control of most of the islands natural resources. Additionally, Greenlandic is now the sole official language, and Greenlanders are now treated as a separate people under international law. Although the island is massive - with an area of over 2 million square kilometers (825,000 sq mi), its population is small, with just over 57,000 residents, 88% of Inuit descent and and 12% of European descent. Collected here are some recent photographs from all around Greenland. (34 photos total)
Scientists Jason Box of Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center and polar expedition expert Eric Philips, both members of the Greenpeace Arctic Impacts tour, assisted by experts in ice logistics, set up one of a series of time-lapse cameras surveying the 16km wide Petermann Glacier, in northwest Greenland on July 29, 2009. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise has arrived in the area, to carry out several weeks scientific research into the impacts of climate change, and to bear witness to the glacier's disintegration. (NICK COBBING/AFP/Getty Images)
Picture taken on July 3, 2009 of the Greenlandic village of Sarfannquag perched up on a hillside. The 120 inhabitants of the village are waiting to be equipped with wind turbines to reduce their dependence on petroleum-based fuel and free them from their isolation. (Slim ALLAGUI/AFP/Getty Images) #
A polar bear walks along the edge of an ice bridge in the Robeson channel, between Greenland and Canada on June 29, 2009. Greenpeace and leading climate scientists are in Greenland for a 3 month expedition using their icebreaking ship the Arctic Sunrise to gather climate change data for the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009. (REUTERS/Nick Cobbing/Greenpeace) #
Large moulin on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Two recent studies of ice sheet motion and melting suggest that surface melting can produce dramatic drainage and seismic shifting on the Greenland Ice Sheet. But, surface melt that eventually lubricates the bottom of the ice sheet and accelerates its slide over bedrock may not be enough, by itself, to cause catastrophic loss of ice sheet mass. This research appeared in the 17 April 2008 issue of Science Express. (Image courtesy of Science) #
Danish glacier expert Andreas Peter Ahlstroem stands in front of the Ilulissat glacier on July 3. 2009. Greenland's Ilulissat glacier, which has become a symbol of climate change, lost 94 square kilometres (60 square miles) of surface area between 2001 and 2005 due to global warming, according to a US study published last year. In 2004 Ilulissat Icefjord was admitted onto UNESCO's World Heritage List. (Slim ALLAGUI/AFP/Getty Images) #
Detail from a panorama of the town of Upernavik in Greenland from cliffs next to the football field. Taken in evening sun at 11:30 pm on August 5th, 2007. Original here. (Kim Hansen / CC BY-SA) #
Detail from a panorama of the settlement Aappilattoq, east of Upernavik in Greenland on August 9th, 2007. Original here. (Kim Hansen / CC BY-SA) #
View from the from top of Somandsfjeldet, a mountain above the town of Tasiilaq, Greenland - the town is visible along the shoreline at center right. (Uwe Pieper / CC BY-SA) #
Aerial photograph of Upernavik, Greenland, taken from a helicopter on July 11th, 2007. (Kim Hansen / CC BY-SA) #
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The sun and the icebergs around Cape York, Greenland in September of 2005. (Mila Zinkova / CC BY-SA) #
More links and information
Greenland - Wikipedia entry
Greenland votes for more autonomy - BBC, 11/26/2008
Timelapse video of Ilulissat Glacier - Vimeo.com
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Exactly right #50! Even if "global warming" wasn't the huge scam that it is, I'd bet Greenlanders wouldn't mind being a little warmer - it still looks plenty cold up there.
Ce sont de très belles images ...
Quelle lumière sur la numéro 4 !
by lookig beautyful views and organised peaple i pray all mighty that if u want to born me again in to this wold,please born me like this place but not like pakistan muslim hell.
I live in Oregon and am so use to seeing trees. Are there any trees there?
Unfortunately, #50, you are the one that is being unreasonable. There is no debate at all that the planet is warming. The evidence is everywhere. The debate has been over whether the warming is caused by human activity, or is part of a natural cycle. Which brings us to...
Poster #72. Since you are convinced that it is all a giant scam, perhaps you could post some conclusive evidence that the vast majority of researchers from across the scientific spectrum (who don't work for the fossil fuel industry), have somehow all agreed to march in lockstep on a giant conspiracy from which they won't profit at all, and which has no obvious reason for existing. Conjecture and hearsay aren't enough to justify playing Russian roulette with the planet's fate.
#76. Slipstream there is plenty of evidence going against glodbal warming also here are some random things that most people arnt aware of for no one is allowed to speak out against somthing this big: Carbon emisions have virtually no cause on global warming and are infact one of the SMALLEST of the green house gasses, less than 1% and the number of human caused carbon emissions is even smaller. the largest greenhouse gas filling are atmosphere is water vapor and 99% of that comes from the oceans seas and lakes of our world. and while it may be true that the world is going through a warming stage, it is also true that around 30 years ago everyone was worrying about the ICE AGE to come...
#76 there certainly is debate. Maybe you should stop drinking the kool-aid and pay attention to reality. Beautiful pictures san the political comments.
Amazing pictures! Thank you
#76: very well put. It's ironic--but also kinda sad--that those convinced that anthropogenic global warming is a farce constantly refer to those who have been convinced through the abundant scientific data that it is indeed real as 'sheep' and 'Kool-Aid drinkers', when they themselves have gotten their far-less-than scientific opinions off of the same right wing talk shows and oil industry websites as all the other Deniers. We can only hope that, at least this once, truth triumphs over narrow-minded and selfish special interests, and that folks realize that the greater good of taking care of the earth far outweighs the 'convenience' of maintaining the petroleum-based status quo.
But I digress: beautiful photos indeed.
Truly Awesome, this is a place where you just want to visit....over and over.
Recientes a la vida compleja de la Democracia,pero con un gran aliado para soportar sus riesgos,tienen la fuerza y belleza de lo natural.
I loved scandinavia and am so sorry I missed Greenland....will put this at the top
of my list to go. Beautiful country.
Wonderful pictures
How wonderful is Greenland, the most beautiful place of the world.
I've been to Kulusuk. It's a great place to visit.
Gorgeous! I had no idea that it wasn't an independent country.
What the hell? I thought Greenland was green!
what a charming place,i'd love to visit
28 is beautiful... as always, thanks for sharing.
breath taking!
The humidity is very low less than 5% so 35 F feels like 65 F. I spent over 6 months at Thule with winter temperatures of - 40 F and winds that sometimes reached 100 mph somewhat chilly but with appropriate artic clothing manageable.
Before I check out, I would like to find out why the Artic hares were at least 25 to 30 lbs. about twice the size of the foxes. The musk Oxen were enormous while living in area almost bare of plants.
I highly recommend a trip of 3 to 4 months to explore Greenland, specially Ultima Thule and Station Nord (The Northern most inhabited location).
Being a Dane, I am thrilled Greenland is now on the verge to become a separate country. It has cost the Danish government and the Danes a lot to keep this far away place afloat. I certanly hope the Faeroe Islands will be next.
The pictures are gorgeous though.
This is a beautiful country indeed, but they have many problems and it will be a long time until they can become fully independent, the population is 50.000 people, the country is very poor, they have a lot off social problems like, heavy drinking, Cannabis smoking, very high if not the highest suicide rate in the world and a big problem with child abuse as well.
But they are my Neighbors and i care for them, i wish them all the best and they are on the last steps on becoming independent country, the last steps are the hardest.
Congratulations on your coming into self -government. I hope the United States learns from Denmark that people have an inalienable right to independence. Puerto Rico should be enjoying its path towards its independence, as Greenland will surely enjoy in the near future.
May God keep your people and country in health and prosperity.
Great Pictures
great pictures
Great and sooo suprise pitctures..
!!!!!
Awesome ................. images
As someone living in the tropical end of the world..i'm always facinated by Greenland, despite the differences in weather, the issues of resources, energy and sovereignty are almost similar. Thank you for the wonderful pictures revealing the myths of the cold land faraway.
rapture... isn't it?
#34 beautiful last photo
Great pictures as always.
Though for the first time I felt that the proper context (location) was not set for the pictures. In cases of pictures of big cities, the reader is aware of the context but for isolated areas such as this it would be great if you could show the google map for the area as the first (or second) photo and possible with geotags for the photos. I know it will take more work but its an idea.
Great Pictures
Wow the View makes ourself to reach there..
Tasiilaq is amazing! Best hotel room view ever:
http://www.photodiary.org/ph_h_4198.shtml
i love this pictures :-)
Tényleg szép, de lakna ott a faszom...
Excellent pictures of the summertime and daylight environment of Greenland. Much of the year it is in gloom and darkness, the brilliant and long days pictured here must be treasured for the light and life they bring to this northerly land.
And cultists please note, a millennium ago Greenland was a much warmer place that supported agriculture not possible in recent centuries.
espectaculares fotografias, en el fin del mundo... que sobrecogedores paisajes... las imagenes me sirvieron como vía de escape y obtener algo de paz... en esta oficina en pleno centro de santiago de Chile
saludos... felicitaciones... gran portal..
wonderfull picture.
People who liked those picture will sure love the picture from my uncle trip to Antarctica.
Here they are:
http://www.lobsang.fr/lobsang/2009/05/11/mes-derniers-voyages/
Whole world looks beautiful as long as vegitation, Animals, Birds, Fishes, Insects ,Germs, Virus and even the innocent Human beings are there; the moment the killing cults like Islam and Christianity arrive, they will make a hell of any natural heaven.
Anyone who has been to Greenland knows the "early morning sun" and the "evening sun" last all day as Greenland enters and exits the summer period of 24-hour sunlight.
These pictures are amazing. I would love to go there sometime.
I lived in Greenland for 3 months in 2006, as an artist-in-residence at Upernavik Museum (photos 21, 27 & 31) so it's great for me to see this amazing and little-known country through such great photographic imagery. Thanks!
I can only say that Greenland is as beautiful as these wonderful pictures suggest. My wife and I and two friends kayaked for 8 days in the west-central fjords near the town in photo 2, thanks to a trip arranged by Worldwide Paddling Adventures. We stood looking at the millions of ice fragments spilling out from Jakobshaven glacier at midnight on July 3, 2008, exactly one year earlier than photos 23 and 30. Accomodations in the small towns are very comfortable, in the Scandanavian style, and the local people are friendly. Camping and paddling in this stunningly harsh and beautiful place is something we will never forget.
Awesome pics of nature and macankind living simple.....just awesome
South Africa
Hamlet Castrodad said: "I hope the United States learns from Denmark that people have an inalienable right to independence. Puerto Rico should be enjoying its path towards its independence"
You need to research your topic more fully. The people of Puerto Rico have been voting repeatedly AGAINST independence for forty years. If they don't want it then who are you, I, or anyone else to urge that they should have it?
Simply put, people don't have an inalienable right to independence. They have an inalienable right to SELF-DETERMINATION and the people of Puerto Rico have repeatedly made their feelings on that point clear.
it is heaven on earth
hiii
how are you
im from pakistan
and im student i want wist the beautiful GREENLAND
how i can reach? please infome me i will b thankfull to you
and im waiting ur reply thanks
It's one of finest feast of rarest and beautiful trip i had ever had by my 'Laptop' Airways !
Thanks for choosing me as one of the luckiest travelers !
Pradeep Dixit
India
Beautiful...great job.. I just love the blog
what about global warming?
dont show us the beauty...sing a song to save the planet
Great Photos, The world is stiil beautiful..just needed to be preserved.
What are the cargo containers for in pic#13?
#126, if Greenland is anything like rural Alaska then the answer to the question "What are the cargo containers for?" is probably "Anything and everything manufactured." The isolated rural arctic is at least seasonally rich in natural resources such a fish, berries, caribou, and minerals ...but there is little to no industrial manufacturing or processing of resources into finished goods. So anything like medical equipment, machine parts, consumer items, and processed food is mainly imported in containers.
Greenland is high on my list of places to visit because I am a glowhound -a mineral collector (rockhound) with a special interest in fluorescent minerals which glow under UV. After Franklin, New Jersey, the ultraviolet reactive minerals of Greenland may be the most spectacular in the world. Check out the photo gallery of specimens at the Coolworldminerals page on Greenland by MinerShop, URL:
http://www.minershop.com/html/greenland_fluorescents.html
wow what a place to be looks like god has himself hand picked the best articles to decorate it , really salute the creator
soo beautiful. however the name suggests that it must have been a lot greener when Leif Erikson discovered it.
orj...torrak! absolutely great :) nuann!!!
#113, actually nearly 80% of the population is already Christian, and they aren't killing anyone yet. Maybe you should consider your own bias.
It's a shame folks can't look at a bunch of pictures and enjoy them for what they are, without interjecting a lot of nonsensical babbling and whining about religion, politics, "global warming" or whatever. If you don't like what the story says, cry to the editor in an email. No one whats to read your little rants.
Beautiful images, btw.
*thinks* So where's the done dummy who says "Shopped!"
These are wonderful. Many thanks. I live in a desert...
Beautiful photography of a wonderful spot on our earth. Thank You.
Fantástico, um dia quem sabe ainda irei conhecer este lugar abençoado por DEUS e bonito por natureza!!
CD.´.
Que Espectaculo de Lugar, Maravillosas tomas del paisaje de Groelandia, como decia un amigo en su comentario anterior, lo relajante de las fotos te llevan a un nivel de paz espiritual unico. Bella isla envidio a sus moradores, mucha salud y crecimiento poblacional para ellos.
gracias portal por presentar tan Maravillosa isla de nuestor Planeta.
Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela.
Greenland beauty fight. Gigantic struggle for existence
Thanks to the magic images
Budapest, Hungary
What an amazing place! I've always wondered why Greenland was considered part of Europe when the population is clearly native North Americans. Maybe i'ts because Europeans drew the map. ;-)
Great photography - stunning iceberg shots.
There is no debate that Global Warming is occuring to those of us in the Earth Sciences. We have been stating for the last 100 years or so that the earth is in an interglacial warming trend and has been for the last 10,000 years. There have been 3 major periods of Continental Glaciation(Tahoe, Tenaya, Tioga) over the last 200,000 years. That means for those who don't know that the Earth gets cold and continental glaciers form (imagine a mile thick slab of ice over New York), and then the world heats up and the ice melts. The Great Lakes region is still rebounding from the last ice age at the rate of 1 inch per year folks! It is normal! and not man caused..
omg.. I have the same Burton jacket as that guy on the far left in picture 5...
oh yeah, and... ice ice baby
The landscapes are just amazing!
greenland should be asked to be canadian
69: I guess, if by "eco terrorist" you mean most mainstream scientists. It must be nice being conservative with all your easy, corporate-apologist conspiracy theories.
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Posted by Slipstream August 8, 09 12:57 PM
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Conjecture and hearsay aren't enough to justify playing Russian roulette with the planet's fate.
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But that's not the point, the planet will survive and if current life was damaged is being damaged in the process, then it will grow again.
It is US we should be worried about. We may not be able to cope with the differences we are inducing to the planet.
splended, beutiful
hey alan hope youre doing well!
i was wondering if you keep an archive of these pics in high quality. i'd love to take a few and make them wallpapers.
I spent a year up there, 1950-51 in the Air Force flying a rescue B-17 alternating between BW-1 ( Narsarssuaq) and BW-8 (Sondrestromfjord). There is much more shoreline visible today then there was then so things are certainly getting warmer. The glaciers are receding and the melt lakes up on the cap are larger and more prevalent.
Climate indeed experienced changes as big as what we are about to see in the future, but not at such a fast rate. And much more important - especially to people who still use the argument of natural variability - , it can now be comprehensivly explained what part of recent climate change is natural and what part is un-natural/anthropogenic. With that knowledge one can split up climate change into different contributors and realize that the recent climate change is to a large part man-made. When studying climate science you actually do the research and find these results. On what, I may ask then, do climate-sceptics base their statements?
Love the pictures. How hopeless it must be to be walking in #33 and realize how much farther you have to go!
As for the global warming arguments. Glaciers are getting smaller. The ice caps are getting smaller. There aren't any glaciers in the whole wide world that are getting bigger. I don't know why people latch on to crazy ideas like Holocaust denial, moon-landing denial, global warming-denial, etc. I blame public schools and parents for not teaching rigorous skeptical theory. After all, these people can type and are clearly not retarded. So what's the problem?
Greenland makes my boobies hot.
Great pictures...
I'm in the other extrem, in the south of the american's continent, in Chile.
Cheers to all, is a beautiful site!
Great beauty....
One of the best 100 places to visit before I die... :)
whats a greatest picture i ever seen..thanks i really like all beatifull view.
exillent pictures.......
I have nothing to say! Just amazing!!!
Because of "global warming", now there are wildflowers in Greenland (pics #9 and #26) : OMG, isn't it HORRIBLE : flowers instead of ice ?
is pictures beutiful!!!!!!!!!!
WoW! I hope to see these landscapes one day for real, but this was a nice fill-in.
Great pictures. Do cruise ships ever go there? And thanks for the decent pixel count - some other people have ruined their pictures by downsizing them.
Brilliant, these pictures speak volumes for the beauty of greenland...hope,whn i ever visit these places,they would be as breathless as the pictures show them to be!! Thankyou!
Just... wow! Nice photo set. Thanks to your photographers :)
94 square kilometers is not 60 square miles :-)
Remote places nice.
sooo........ what did the Danish do all these years? Greenland looks primitive, almost no sign of civilisation... just poor people hardly making a living. and they call this part of Denmark? a civilised European country?
Oh earth, oh earth, how wonderful it is to be alive on this beautiful planet.
Beautyful pictures, love them...
Gyonyoru kepek!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bye
I love the cool polor beear
wanna see it quickly.very beautifull!!!
i like it there
Answer to #94: The Danes have taken all the values (material and non-material) away from the Inuit population (including the right to use their original names given at birth. Therefore, I find it quite appropriate that Denmark (my country) realizes that it is payback time. I call for support for Kalaalit Nunaat for many more years. Erik. http://www.olbec.com/tas.htm
very interesing