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The villagers of Uummannaq were given just four days to leave their homes. It was the spring of 1953, the Cold War was nearing its peak and the United States had set its sights on this remote ...
A five-year-old from Greenland’s Uummannaq Children's Home shares his life in this remote and frozen corner of the globe. Dharma wanted to go out on the ice. The black-haired boy was already ...
The villagers of Uummannaq were given just four days to leave their homes. It was the spring of 1953, the Cold War was nearing its peak and the United States had set its sights on this remote ...
Uummannaq, Avannaata, Greenland Weather History star_ratehome-16 ...
While in Uummannaq, (which […] Uummannaq is a 1.170 meter high mountain located on Uummannaq island in the central part of the Uummannaq Fjord in northwestern Greenland. Photograph by Ciril Jazbec ...
It’s what first took him in 2013 to the tiny island town of Uummannaq on Greenland’s west coast—a town where decreasing sea ice has rapidly altered traditional hunting culture and community ...
It is no mystery how Uummannaq Island got its name. In Greenlandic, the word means “heart-shaped,” an apt description for the multi-peaked mountain that towers over the 12 square kilome… ...
With 1,300 inhabitants, the town represents about 2.3 percent of Greenland’s population, and some of the settlements around Uummannaq are more than 100 miles away from the nearest medical facility.