The station on Ella Oy was the headquarters of the Sirius dog sled patrol in northeast Greenland until 1951. But the settlement of the island goes far back to the Thule culture. BIld: MIchael Wenger In the northeast of Greenland, near the edge of the world’s...
Glacial calvings and collapses of entire ice walls are common in Antarctica and in polar regions in general. The resulting underwater tunamis are likely to have correspondingly more important roles than previously thought. Image: Dr Michael Wenger On the one hand,...
Minding the gap (Photo: Geus) A map of the Uummannaq Fjord system. The red dot indicates the location of the 2017 Karrat Fjord incident. The green dot indicates the location of the Kigarsima area (Map: Google Maps) The Kigarsima area as it appeared in 2015 and 2021....
The South Sandwich Islands are a chain of volcanic islands in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, at the end of the Scotia Arc. On the one hand, the islands are home to millions of penguins, but on the other hand, they are also in the midst of numerous earthquakes...
The places on the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands, here Unalaska, are quite often affected by earthquakes. A major tsunami in the region would cause significant structural damage. The hilly terrain offers the inhabitants opportunities for evacuation. Photo:...
