#sermitsiaq

[davidstanleytravel]

Sermitsiaq mountain (1,210 meters) provides a stunning backdrop for Nuuk (Godthab), Greenland. The international airport can be seen stretching along a ridge above the town.

[tomorrowusa]

Results of a poll in Greenland reveal that the vast majority of residents want nothing to do with Trump's attempts to annex their country. 🇬🇱

New poll shows overwhelming majority of Greenlanders reject Trump

In a new poll conducted by Verian for Berlingske and the Greenlandic newspaper Sermitsiaq, 85 percent of Greenlanders say no to the idea that they want Greenland to leave the Danish Realm and become part of the US instead. Only 6 percent of Greenlanders want to leave the Danish Realm in favour of the US, and 9 percent are undecided. »Compared to what Donald Trump has said previously, this is very clear evidence that the reality is different,« says Kasper Møller Hansen, an election researcher and professor of political science at the University of Copenhagen who has studied opinion polls for years.

Pro-annexation Greenlanders (6%) are smaller in number than the undecided (9%).

You don't need to know Danish to understand what Greenlanders think about Trump's imperialistic lust.

[dandelionsprout42]

My analysis of Greenland from a Norwegian perspective

I read Sermitsiaq's websites roughly monthly without needing translator tools, and have watched Danmark Radio's splendid documentary series Historien om Grønland og Danmark.

From my understanding, Greenland has never truly felt okay with Denmark. Until circa 1940, all trade with other nations was banned (and even then it only became allowed due to Greenland being in the Allies and cut off from Denmark); and at least 6 different approaches for Greenlandic society has been tried out (ranging from enforcing old hunting techniques, to building reasonably good apartment blocks with TVs, then-modern stoves, and everything).

However, and this is a very big however: Greenland's goal is independence. Not to become colonised by a second nation.

Pretty much the only thing left that hampers Greenlandic independence is that their land-based infrastructure is non-existent. There are no proper roads between any towns. A dirt trail between the old Kangerlussuaq airport and the town of Sisimiut was purportedly opened a year or 2 ago, but would be very impractical at best to carry large supplies through.

Greenland probably also needs a strategy for currency; they can't readily change to the Euro. Or at least I don't think they can. They also never really got momentum going with building a proper football stadium for CONCACAF; and they only have 1 proper locally based TV station, 1 newspaper, and AFAIK 1 radio station, partially owing to their not particularly large population (Digital TV is widespread, but a majority of those channels are Danish).

Their amounts of land-based farming is also not much to write home about, so outsiders' eyebrows will be raised even higher than before about whale hunting until they get better access to e.g. grains without import costs.

[superbnature]

Greenland 2018 - The Mythical Fjord by BrianScrivner

[zamasama]

Greenland 2018 - Fjord Adventure! by BrianScrivner

[privara]

Midnight Sun por André Terras Alexandre Por Flickr: Nuuk, Greenland Check my WEBSITE

[jimabernethy]

#Repost @dolphin.freedom.uk @download.ins --- Four killer whales were hunted down and shot dead in #Greenland waters . The incredible and dramatic episode was staged in the Nuuk Fjord area, in the territory of Sermersooq and was filmed in a video that, taken by one of the hunters thanks to a camera placed on the head, was published on the You Tube platform. . In the images, you can see the small boats chasing the killer whales while the author of the terrible images takes up his rifle and shoots at least two specimens, hitting the target. There would be four orcas involved in the hunt, all killed. Three killer whales, despite the efforts of the hunters, sank leaving the men stunned who had to settle for the only specimen subsequently harpooned and represented in the images disseminated by Dolphin Freedom UK and by Sermitsiaq, one of the two most important newspapers in Greenland. But it does not end there because the environmental association Dolphin Freedom UK stressed that the orca killed and recovered, after being slaughtered, would be put up for sale in pieces on social networks. Greenland is a huge autonomous Danish territory. Covered by ice and largely uninhabited, it still has an almost uncontaminated nature. Google translated from Italian. Article: Il Messaggero #DFUK #dolphinfreedomUK #sermitsiaq #orca (at Greenland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW86b7OvhPR/?utm_medium=tumblr

[itslandscapess]

Greenland 2018 - The Mythical Fjord