Kulusuk: a Lost Football in the Tundra

Kulusuk is a tiny village of 250 inhabitants and the main access point to Eastern Greenland, thanks to its tiny airport with a direct view of the ice. Grey skies, low clouds, a fine drizzle that seems to come from every direction: it’s not the most comfortable first sight over tundra! Taiga, steppe, tundra: when …

Ikateq, population one

Roughly diamond-shaped, Angmassalik Island, off the coast of Eastern Greenland, is 40 km long and 30 km wide. It’s a mountainous island of granite polished by ice, with many small valleys modelled by glacial erosion. It is here, among these peaks and fjords, that we find Ikateq, the small settlement known for having a population of just one. Only …