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Greenland, Arctic White Island
Half the world’s scientists warn that melting Greenland without delay, but its natural beauty continue to impress in this remote place on earth we still have time to visit. Stopping in Inuit peoples, embellished with glaciers and polar wildlife watch this white island in the Arctic, is a unique experience. Greenland is unlike anything else in the world. That’s the great outdoors. The weather. Just think that people have survived in such extreme conditions of polar cold for over a thousand years is something that impresses.
Fram is the star ship Hurtigruten, the Norwegian shipping company that runs the waters of the Arctic White Island, the second largest in the world after Australia in the summer. It is not a cruise as those made in the Mediterranean or the Caribbean, here the aim is to discover the world of the Inuit and the icebergs. These are precisely the blocks of ice floating in the sea and love of the Eskimos who live in these lands it really like Greenland.
In Greenland you can find more of a surprise. You never know what awaits you at every moment or what they can see your eyes. You suddenly discover the lash of the dorsal fin of a whale, marvel at the downward spiral of a glacier on the sea or marvel at a spectacular iceberg wrapped its shape and blue colors that are reflected in the sea. The impressions of this great nature always captivate. No one is disappointed.
Kangerlussuag first stop is the usual entry for Greenland. About 600 people live along this former military airport, built by the Americans during World War II to serve as a springboard between the U.S. and Europe. The inhospitable place is famous for being a great place for contemplation of the Arctic terrestrial fauna, and especially the musk ox. Only a couple dozen of these woolly herbivores in the sixties came from Canada, but now graze over the plains are another 15,000 who post in Greenland.