Friday, 03-May-2024

I love learning about the history of countries. Their people, the land the people live on, and how the two connect… it’s so interesting, especially when considered in context to the greater world around us all.

The National Museum in Nuuk is small, but it has a really cool assortment of history of the island (Yes, Greenland is the largest Island in the world, since Australia is technically a continent). From the first Inuit to arrive in ~2,500 BCE, to a few hundred years without any human inhabitation between ~0 CE and 700 CE, to the modern Greenlanders who call the island home. Learning how they survived using driftwood, as there are basically no trees in Greenland, and how they’d hunt and travel across the ice… it really is amazing learning about how resilient humanity can be.

I’ll let the photos speak for themselves – enjoy, and many thanks to my excellent camera for being able to capture all the wording of the signs!