Taiga, steppe, tundra: when I was at school, geography was my favourite. It was the right time to dream on the green and brown pages of the world atlas, on the strange and fascinating words of the textbook that reminded me of the adventures that one day I would live. Tundra, steppe, taiga: the sound …
Do you remember Ikateq, the Greenlandic ghost village? Well, at the end of the exploration, it was time for us to get back to the pier where the tiny boat was waiting for us. Tiniteqilaaq, at the edge of the known world Our next destination is the (inhabited!) village of Tiniteqilaaq. To get there we …
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. Only the tops of the mountains are often sharp. Obviously, in the past, they were Nunataq: this Inuit term refers to a mountain peak that …