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Settling the harsh and beautiful coast of Greenland circa 1889


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August 1889

Kayakers near Ammassalik.

Image: T.N. Krabbe/National Museum of Denmark

These photos of Greenland at the end of the 19th century capture the humble settlements and imposing terrain of an island where the way of life has changed little in millennia.

First inhabited by Paleo-Inuit groups around 2500 BCE, the massive island — more than three quarters of which is permanently covered in ice — offers little resources for agriculture. Greenlandic Inuit families, the majority of which are from the Kalaalit group of western Greenland, depend primarily on hunting whales and seals for food, skins and oil Read more...

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