Traditional Foods of Greenland

Tucking into a typical Greenlandic dish almost certainly means munching on fish, game, or fowl, as the glacial terrain precludes a vegetarian diet. In the capital city of Nuuk, where one-third of Greenlanders live, planes and ships bring luxuries from abroad, but outside of Nuuk, where frosty wilderness prevails, uninterrupted by so much as a road, hunting is essential and food comes from the sea, the sky, and the icy plains where the caribou roam. 

The Arctic Fox

In the most frigid extremes of the Arctic, there lives a unique and hauntingly beautiful creature. It is found throughout the Arctic tundra and is the only native land mammal of Iceland – millions of years ago it walked on small, well-padded paws from Northern Europe across a sea of ice to claim the then-uninhabited island as its own. Meet the Arctic fox: a canine expeditioner, Iceland’s true first discoverer.