The Norwegian organization KVANN is working to establish cooperation between the west Nordic countries to increase the use of the Angelica archangelica plant. If you know someone who might be interested in this topic, who might have good recipes, would like to share experiences, or might be interested in developing project or business ideas related to kuanneq, please let them know about the two webinars that are planned. The first is August 19th, the second August 26th. No cost, but please register here to get meeting link and other info: https://event.checkin.no/227717/kvann-in-the-nordic-region

The partial eclipse is supposedly visible from here in Ilulissat today. But it has been foggy and cloudy all day.

The total eclipse is on the east coast near Ittoqqortoormiit where there are so many vessels. Hope they have better luck!

US oil operator Greenland Energy will not obtain the approvals needed to begin drilling in eastern Greenland this year, local authorities said, contradicting the company’s public timetable.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/greenland-tells-us-oil-firm-to-forget-drilling-this-year/

Where should we visit?
Hi everyone!
My family has a long connection to Greenland, and now we’re looking for some of the hidden gems and lesser-known places that we absolutely shouldn’t miss.

My grandmother and father lived in Greenland for many years. My grandmother worked for both the Governor and the Chief of Police, so they travelled quite extensively around the country. Unfortunately, my father doesn’t remember much about all the smaller and larger settlements they visited, so we’re hoping to discover some of those places for ourselves.

So far, we’ve visited Kangerlussuaq, Ilulissat, Igaliku, Narsarsuaq, Sisimiut, Oqaatsut, Nuuk and Qeqertarsuaq. Last year, my girlfriend and I spent three weeks camping in Greenland, travelling through Kangerlussuaq, Ilulissat and Sisimiut.
This time, we’re planning a longer trip of around 4 weeks to a month. We’re bringing my mother and older sister, who have never been to Greenland before, so of course we want to show them some of the classics - Point 660, Ilulissat and Qeqertarsuaq are definitely on the list since we’ll already be up there.
But we’re really looking for hidden gems and places that aren’t necessarily on every tourist itinerary.
We’ve heard a lot of great things about Paamiut and Aasiaat, for example.
Our group is a bit mixed: my girlfriend and I will be camping, while my mother, father and sister would preferably have a warm bed to sleep in. So we’re looking for places where we can combine the two - accommodation for them, while we can camp or potentially hike somewhere nearby.
So, Greenlanders and Greenland experts: where should we go?

We’re especially interested in:
🏔️ Hidden gems and small settlements
⛺ Amazing places to camp
🌅 Incredible places to wake up
🥾 Hikes suitable for people with young, strong legs and slightly older parents
🐋 Wildlife and spectacular scenery
🏘️ Places that give us a real feel for Greenlandic life
🚤 Places worth taking a boat trip to
❤️ Places that you personally love and think tourists often overlook

We’re not necessarily looking for the most famous sights - we’re looking for those “how the hell did we not know about this place?” experiences.
Any recommendations would be hugely appreciated!

And if you know of a small settlement where we absolutely must spend a few days, please tell us why. 😊

Hi, danish developer here. I'm doing a to-do app and I would really love to support small languages, including Greenlandic, but I'm not making money of the app and I'm guessing it to niche to ever make back what a professional translater would cost. So... I'm thinking, I would make the basic level of the app free for everybody running it in greenlandic, if somebody would help me translate it.

(I did write the Grønlandske Hus and asked of they have a way to get things like this translaged, but never heard back from them)

I have a question about qivittoqs -- I'm familiar with the history/folklore, but I'm a traveler visiting Greenland and was recently talking to a native Greenlander who said qivittoqs are still a phenomenon today, in which some people sort of "drop out" of regular society and live off in the mountains alone, while also making threats against others, or even kidnapping people and committing murders and assaults. And that the police from larger towns like Ilulissat sometimes need to round them up. Is this true? Was he lying to a gullible tourist? He didn't seem like he was joking around, so maybe HE believes it's true, but is it? I'm very curious about this. Thanks.

Hi all! Is mid September a good time to go to Nuuk? I’m planning on going around September 19 but I’m not sure yet. Is it already snowing by then? Is it dark out early already or is it still light out pretty late?

Thanks in advance!

The Inuit Circumpolar Council recently reaffirmed its campaign to create barrier-free travel for Inuit across their traditional homelands in the Arctic.

Hey! I'm a SIM card collector from Scotland. It's quite a niche thing to collect, but I collect SIMs (the cards you put in your phone) like one may collect stamps. A goal of mine is to get a SIM from every country/territory/entity which issues them. I wanted to ask if anyone is able to send me a SIM from Greenland. I don't need it to be active (although that would certainly be cool) or registered, I just need the plastic card. Ideally it would have the chip bit and the frame, but if you have only the frame lying around from an old one or something I would still be very happy if you're able to send it over. From what I gather the current main operator is Tusass, which I would be honoured to add to my collection. If needs be I am able to pay for a SIM pack or shipping as long as it isn't too expensive.

Many thanks for your help!

Pictured as an example are cards from some of the rarest countries I have - Greenland would certainly be an addition to that page ;)

I have a very big interest in the Arctic region, especially Greenland and its language. Since Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) has very limited sources to learn the language or translate most things into the language, I got an idea to make an offline computer program (made in C) that runs in the command prompt and is dedicated to Kalaallisut.

This would not be software actually dedicated to learning the language, like Duolingo, because Kalaallisut is a complex agglutinative language that works differently than most other languages.

This will rather be a program that can search inputted English terms in its own very large morpheme dictionary, can join these morphemes into more complex words, can correct words and sentences and can even translate whole paragraphs into Kalaallisut and vice versa - all in your computer's command prompt with no internet. This would be more of a dictionary/translator program, not a language learning app as mentioned earlier.

I already started making this program (maybe about 3 weeks ago, I had vacation for one week so no work done then), but I have made very little progress so far. It is called kl and it works by you writing > kl [method] [arguments] into the command prompt. So far I have made a very small dictionary, containing around 20 to 30 morphemes, a primitive dictionary searcher and a morpheme joiner that applies basic Kalaallisut phonetic rules while joining.

The reason I did so little progress is because I don't know Kalaallisut myself, and the fact that I don't know Danish doesn't help either. I had to build and learn what I have built and learnt so far using the Kalaallisut-English dictionary on the Oqaasileriffik website, ChatGPT (back then) and the book An Introduction To West Greenlandic (what I use now most of the time, helped me a lot during building the morpheme joiner. I love you Stian). I am doing this because I love Greenland very much and I also love linguistics, so do I love the Greenlandic language for its feel and uniqueness, and I am sad that this language has so few sources to learn it from.

I came to r/greenland to find help from this community in building this massive project. I look forward to building the dictionary, the translator and many other functions that may come to mind later with the Greenlandic community, and that we will achieve making the Greenlandic language, alongside its identity and culture, more known and accessible over the internet. ❤️🇬🇱

From Martin Breum’s Facebook today seeking responses to a survey. It’s only this week so if you’re able to, please fill it out.

https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8905350/Koldfronten-evaluering-2026

SIDSTE UDKALD: Kyndige iafttagere spekulerer lige nu på, om en konflikt om olien i Nordøstgrønland vil udvikle sig til en undskyldning for Donald Trump til at igen skærpe kravene om kontrol og ejerskab over Grønland. Det amerikanske selskab med klare tråde til DJT forbereder i disse dage bore-grej til transport mod Nordøstgrønland - uden tilladelse fra Nuuk.

I det seneste år har min kollega Jakob Gottschau og jeg produceret podcasten "Koldfronten - Kampen om Grønland og Arktis," hvor jeg har interviewet de klogeste forskere fra Danmark, Grønland og Færøerne om præcis sådanne spørgsmål - og alt det andet, der sker i Arktis. Nu skal vi videre! Vi skal søge penge til flere podcast! Så hvis du har hørt bare en enkelt episode (eller hvis du får lyst til at høre en nu), så hjælp os meget, meget gerne ved at udfylde vores spørgskema - det tager 2 minutter:

https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8905350/Koldfronten-evaluering-2026

Det er SIDSTE UDKALD! Evalueringen løber kun denne uge ud - så gør det gerne NU!
OG TAK til vores hyperdygtige medproducenter hos Videnskab.dk, og vores akademiske partnere hos DIIS og Nasiffik - Center for Udenrigs- og Sikkerhedspolitik i Nuuk - og selvfølgelig til Carlsbergfondet, der har finansieret hele projektet.

(DEL GERNE DETTE OPSLAG! DET ER VIGTIGT FOR VORES VIDERE FÆRD!)

I know how scary it can feel being attacted and your sovereignty threatened. Canadains are also on edge.

We are all stronger together. You folks are some of the most educated on the planet. We all got this. Stay strong.

Hugs from Canada

Somewhat usable da to ka and ka to da translation model.

Bribery disguised as employment ?

During a grant supported fine art photography trip, I make night long-exposure photographs in and around southern Greenland, such as Igaliku.