Travel Group August 26, 2021

Greenland, Presented by John Aldrich, Professor, Dept of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine

Greenland is the largest island in the world with an area similar to Nunavut in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. The 58,000 residents are 85% Inuit as in Nunavut. However, the similarities do not extend much further. Greenland is an autonomous independent territory of Denmark, which provides two thirds of Greenland’s budget. The many coastal villages have the neat and tidy look of Scandinavia, and the capital Nuuk has a modern parliament, shopping centres and several museums. The island is 80%covered in an ice sheet up to 3 km think. On the west coast of Greenland is the impressive Ilulissat glacier, which produces many thousand icebergs yearly, many of which reach as far south as Newfoundland.

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