The 2010 film “The Experiment”, based on a 1998 book that brought the fates of the children to light, follows their lives after their return to Greenland. Image: Nimbus Film Mette Frederiksen, the Danish PM, has already apologised once to Greenland’s “experiment”...
The Akademik Ioffe and her sister ship Sergey Vavilov were commissioned as research vessels by the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the USSR, they were used as expedition ships in the polar regions. In 2019, the owner withdrew the vessels and returned them to their...
The tiny island consists mainly of small mounds of silt and gravel. It could be the result of a large storm that gradually pushed together material from the seafloor with the help of the sea. Photo: Julian Charriere/via REUTERS Polar researchers from Denmark and...
The headquarters of the Danish special unit “Sirius Patrol” in East Greenland is the station Daneborg. The year-round station has at least 12 residents and is located on an offshore island in the middle of the national park “Avannaarsuani Tunumilu...
At the last Arctic Council meeting, Denmark was still in the lead with the Danish Foreign Minister (centre). In the future, Greenland (left) and the Faroe Islands (right) will be able to represent their interests in the Arctic Council, while Denmark will take more of...