Tasiilaq et l'isolation de l'Est

Isolated but accessible

Country

Groenland

Regions

Est du Groenland

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À vivre

If, for a moment, you can tear your gaze away from the mountain peaks, the icebergs and all the possibilities for adventure, you'll realise you're standing in Tasiilaq, looking out over King Oscar's Harbour in East Greenland, about a hundred kilometres south of the Arctic Circle.

Around you lies a town which, despite having only 2,000 inhabitants, is the starting point for a wealth of summer adventures on foot, by kayak, by boat or in the air. Then come the winter activities — dog sledding, skiing, heli-skiing and snowmobiling.

Everything seems a little bigger in Tasiilaq. The mountains, the distances, the adventures and the challenges loom large and call out to you, summer and winter alike.

Two or three supply ships reach Tasiilaq each year, greeted like the messiah. The first arrives in early July, the last departs in mid-October. People head out to sea in their own boats to meet the supply ship. Three cannon shots are then fired to welcome the ship and its fresh provisions. Part of the local population heads down to the harbour to greet it. Fruit and vegetables come off the ship first — then the sweets!

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Despite the dominant ice cap, Greenland's wildlife has access to a far vaster domain than humans do. Fjords are no obstacle for land mammals, birds follow their own routes through the skies above fjords, sea, and mountains, and marine animals are bound by a global ecosystem without borders. Polar bears, musk oxen, caribou, Arctic foxes, hares, eagles, ptarmigans, lemmings, and the rare Arctic ...

Kangerlussuaq

Gateway to the ice cap

As the local saying goes, you'll never be without a friend in Kangerlussuaq, since you're bound to run into a familiar face in this gateway to Greenland. All day long, travellers arrive in Kangerlussuaq to head out across the country or on to the rest of the world. If you want to be among the truly lucky ones, you'll trade this busy transit hall for a spot in the hills where the loudest sound ...

Le Groenland

The ice island

The largest non-continental island in the world, with the sparsest population of any country, Greenland is a vast wilderness offering spectacular scenery, rugged mountainous terrain, and resilient Arctic wildlife. According to Icelandic legend, the Viking Erik the Red named Greenland (literally “green land”) to attract settlers to its shores, despite the fact that 80% of its surface is ...

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