Collection: Life and culture in Uummannaq, Greenland

Life and culture in Uummannaq, Greenland
The small island of Uummannaq lies on the west coast of Greenland, a land mass where 80% of the land is covered by an ice sheet that in some places reaches up to 4km thick. Local Inuit residents rely very strongly on traditional hunting and fishing. Recent studies show that global warming is causing Greenland's ice cover to melt rapidly, w ...

• Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) head in Greenland The caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is widely distributed across the circumpolar region, and is otherwise known as wild reindeer outside North America. Indigenous populations, many of whom have evolved over several thousands...

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• Ikerasak village, Uummannaq Bay, Greenland The word Uummannaq means 'heart-shaped' and is the name of one of the most northerly towns in Greenland which lies around 590km North of the Arctic Circle. It is so named due to the heart-shaped rocky mountain which over...

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• Dogs sleds in Ikerasak village, Uummannaq Bay, Greenland Uummannaq, situated on the west coast of Greenland, has been inhabited for over 4500 years by Inuits from the American Continent whose traditional hunting and fishing practices are the foundation of the industry here. Tr...

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• Ikerasak village, Uummannaq Bay, Greenland The Uummannaq district encapsulates 11 ice-sheet outlet glaciers (streams of ice from the ice cap to the sea) which terminate at the Sea. These 11 glaciers empty into a fjord system that is joined to Baffin Bay by a chan...

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• Boats in Port, Uumannaq, Greenland Uummannaq is 700km north of the Arctic Circle, just north of Disko Island, Greenland. It experiences three months of the famous Midnight Sun - between May and August. The major industries (fishing and seal hunting) rely ...

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• Dogsled team at dusk Ancient Inuit culture is alive and well and is the foundation of the fishing industry on the island of Uummannaq. Greenland Halibut is the most vital source of income and is fished year-round from holes in the ice, reach...

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• Clouds over peaks in Uummannaq, Greenland Uummannaq is home to 1400 people and 3000 dogs. This district boasts the largest number of glaciers found in the one place.

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• Dogsled team at dusk, Uummannaq Greenland Halibut is the most vital source of income in recent times and is fished year-round from holes in the ice, reached by traditional dog-sled.

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• Dusk over peak The heart-shaped rock overlooking Uummannaq is what gave the town it's name. The word literally means ''the heart-shaped''. Here, there is relative darkness for nine months of the year.

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• Afternoon sun over Uummannaq A small field of glaciers surrounds Baffin Bay, which lies west of Greenland's Uummannaq Island. The bay, which is usually not navigable due to 80% winter coverage of thick ice and icebergs, is sometimes covered by ice s...

  By Lawrence Hislop