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The Greenlanders House Social counselling, social projects Administration and counselling for greenlandic students Students home with 20 rooms

1 The Greenlanders House Social counselling, social projects Administration and counselling for greenlandic students Students home with 20 rooms Cultural and informational services Greenlanders associations, meetings, festivals etc. Services for Danish & Greenlandic organizations and companies

2 University International Club Aarhus Greenland An arctic society. March By director of The Greenlanders House Svend Kolte, M.A.

3 Facts # 1: Northernmost land area, 740 km from the North Pole km long, km max wide 2.2 million sq. km, equivalent to the area of Spain, Italy, France, England, Germany and Poland together!) 81% Ice Cap sq km icefree land, x 10 area of Denmark SW coast is center of population Arctic climate, no forests, almost no agriculture. North of Arctic Circle midnigth sun in summer, total darkness in winter

Facts # 2: Population and languages 56.000 inhabitants. 7.000 of them are Danes and a few hundreds are foreigners. About 15.

4 Facts # 2: Population and languages inhabitants of them are Danes and a few hundreds are foreigners. About greenlanders live in Dennmark Almost all Greenlanders speak Greenlandic, some also Danish and English Very few Danes speak Greenlandic

Greenlandic ownership of minerals and oil 1979 Foreign Policy and Defence in cooperation with Danish Government Annual grant-in-aid from

5 Facts # 3: Constitutional situation Greenland is still a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenlanders are legally Danes But Home Rule since 1979 And semi-independent Government since 2009 All internal matters exclusively under Greenland Government and Parliament Greenlandic ownership of minerals and oil 1979 Foreign Policy and Defence in cooperation with Danish Government Annual grant-in-aid from Denmark to Greenland of 3,5 bill. Dkr (half a billion, or approx per person) Full independence is possible after a referendum in Greenland. 2009

6 A travel through the country of to-day

7 Travelling to and from Greenland, the Airbus from Copenhagen

8 Kangerlussuaq int n l airport airbus Norsaq

9 Local airports

10 Nuuk the Capital

11 Downtown Nuuk

12 Nuuk, old part of town

13 New apartment blocks

14 Nuuk, Tele Greenland tower

15 The new government building

16 Teachers Training College, from 1847

17 Ilisimatusarfik, university of Greenland, 400+ students. Also additionally ca. 700 studying abroad. Also about apprentices in Greenland

18 National Museum of Greenland

19 The coop supermarket

20 Selling lumpfish in the street

21 Children playing

22 A very different Greenland outside the capital: Tasiilaq on the East Coast

23 Often very beautiful in the small villages, - but not much to do!

24 The former fish industry in Kulusuk

25 Some villages are without any resources at all, Tiniteqilaaq on the East Coast

26 But some villages have production, here qullukkat (dried halibut)

27 Trades Fishing is the primary export trade Tourism a growing trade Agriculture supports 200 people Mining is a coming trade with a great potential Most people work in public services

29 Traditional winter fishing

30 Sealhunters

31 Kalaalimineerniarfik local market

32 Tourism

33 A northern hotel around midnight

34 Sailing along the coast

35 Dog sledges are widely used for hunting, sport and tourism

36 Agriculture: primarily sheep-raising

37 The modern farms often use the old Norse sites

38 Mining - great potential, but no working mines yet. Gold Diamonds Rare minerals and metals Oil

39 Nalunaq Gold Mine, recently closed down

40 Aluminium smelter in Iceland, planned also for Greenland

41 Rare Earths Elements and uranium Narsaq, South-West Greenland

42 Other potential mining sites Iron W. Greenland Eudialyte, S-Greenland Iron West Greenland molybdenum, E-Greenland Rubies W. Greenland

43 The possible oil adventure

44 Contending military forces in the Arctic Canadian navy US sub at the North Pole Danish Patrolboat Russian Arctic Navy Chinese Navy

45 Nature and Global Warming

48 trees and driftwood

49 Muskoxes and reindeer

50 Walrus

52 Bowhead and other big whales - a conservational succes

53 Bears & seals

54 Global Warming in Greenland Apart from significant less ice cover at sea, and warmer winters, there are few clear and dramatic changes as yet. Global warming will cause the arctic ecology to be substituted with sub-arctic ecological systems. An economical advantage, but culturally a set-back Unstable and unpredictable weather will, however, be a major problem

6 meters. If all ice caps melt (including the South Pole) sea level will rise with approx. 70 meters!

55 Arctic Global Warming internationally. If the Ice Cap disappears? The Water and Sea Current Problems! About 2 million years ago there was a period with almost no ice cap If this happens again general sea level will rise with approx. 6 meters. If all ice caps melt (including the South Pole) sea level will rise with approx. 70 meters! More fresh water in the Atlantic may cause a much colder North Europe if the Gulf Stream ceases to exist. 2,300,000 years before now, there was no ice-cap To-day: the ice-cap contains 3 mill. km 3 of ice/water

56 Short term weather tendencies are different from long term tendencies. Nuuk April 13.th 2012

57 Light and darkness midday in december

58 First sunrise, 10th of february

59 Midnight sun the sun s travel across the northern sky

60 Autumn is near, the sun is now setting in the night

61 Northern Light (Aurora borealis)

62 The Greenlandic Language one of several languages in the Eskimo Language Family

64 Verbal paradigm: akivaa = he answers him in principle one verb has 382 different combinations of tense and persons.

65 Greenlandic for beginners! qujanarsuaq (Thank you) Aap, ilaana (yes) Naak Qalasersuaq? (where is the North Pole?) Asavinga? (do you love me?) Ataaseq, marluk, pingasut (one, two, three) illillu (you re welcome) Naamik (nej) Qalasersuaq pikaniippoq (the North Pole is up there) Asavakkit! (I love you!) Sisamat, tallimat, arfinillit (four, five, six)

GREENLAND - The dilemma of ice

GREENLAND - The dilemma of ice By Samuel Turpin 2017 1 Photo 01 - Niels and his daughter Arnatasiaq push icebergs that drift too close to their fishing nets with their boats. It is extremely risky because