Poala-Ánde’s “meavresgárri” on display at RiddoDuottarMuseat (Photo: Sámiid Vuorká-Dávvirat) Click on image to view in full size Possession, it is said, is nine-tenths of the law. When it comes to cultural items, it is impossible to underestimate the...
Thule Air Base: something American in the state of Denmark (Photo: Heiner Kubny) If there is one theme that runs through Denmark’s annual threat assessment, it is the increasingly tense relations amongst the United States, China and Russia. Directly or indirectly, the...
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...
