GREAT PICTURES!

#5...Smiles transcend distance, climate, culture. Such beauty in simplicity. I love the photos of the houses.

Fabulous, as usual!

Lovely place of which I know so little. Great to hear there becoming more independant

peaceful new country!!

Huh... nice country, but I sure wouldn't want to live there. Edmonton, AB is about as far north as I want to live.

Great, as usual... I would have thought there would be aurora borealis pictures, but great anyway :)

Beautiful place, love to go there sometime.

Greenland is a lovely place. fabulous. thanks

Awesome #4, #28,#34 !
Greenland should be named as Dreamland :)

Thank you Big Picture for bringing in so much high quality pictures from all walks of life. I have been a subscriber for past few weeks and have enjoyed every post since.

Its been great to learn so much about different countries, their cultures, which otherwise would have only been possible by visiting those places physically.

Thank you again! This is the true use of internet.

#16 won my affection. thanks again BP.

Wow, how beautiful! I would love ti visit one day.

Ok, now I need to go there, too beautifull!

Very beautiful, but winter must be hell !

love the colorful homes, thanks for sharing this corner of the world with us!

#6 has some fancy clothes goign on

Best of wishes to the Greenlandic people. I hope your transition into a sovereign country will go smooth and bring joy to all of you!

Now we just need Faroe Islands deliberated from the last of the Vikings.

So beautiful! Love the houses. Is the little girl in #17 wearing Converse rubber boots?!

Awesome collection! That's where I need to go next July/August and escape the Florida heat.

I completely agree with post #11. As an amateur photographer this site is a fantastic example of the beauty of a frozen moment in time, and as a life-lover I found it more than interesting.
THANKS BIG PICTURE!!

From Argentina I send you my greetings.

Great pictures... I love all the different, brightly colored houses. I imagine that must make the place a little more cheerful when everything is covered with snow!

wow, beautiful!

amazing; i thought the water would be black / green...interesting that the shallower stretches are a translucent blue. NICE.

If Greenland's Ilulissat glacier, which has become a symbol of climate change, lost 94 square kilometres (60 square miles) of surface area between 2001 and 2005 due to global warming. How come nothing is mentioned about The Helheim glacier that retreated 7 kilometers between 2003 and 2005, but has since advanced 4 kilometers. Oh wait, reporting all the facts is not nearly as dramatic as just reporting gloom and doom!

The land of ice and snow
Where the midnight sun blows
Hundred thousand lakes glow
In the land of ice and snow

is their any tourism around their

interesting to note the lack of driveways and any cars in photo #31.

more of a bicycle, boat, xc skiing and snowmobile way of life?

I love the "stacked" houses.

The whole planet was beautiful once!!!!!

Beautiful! #4, 26, 30, 34 are amazing.

#34 took my breathe away as well as all of the other ones, just amazing to see just amazing to see.

Stunning photos, as always...

The beautiful sweaters in 6, 7, and 8; Is that fabric, or hand-knit, or machine-knit, or something entirely different??

the colorful houses remind me of the neighborhood in Edward Scissorhand..haha

Awesome photos! Such an extreme environment, yet so full of life and so beautiful. Living there would be like living inside the Discovery/National Geographic channel. Great work Boston.com for presenting these.

13# It is a blessing to have a view like this from the window...

Awesome pictures as usual. When I see this kind of pictures I want to go there so bad, it's a shame that traveling is so expensive... And then there is my sweet sixteen on MTV where those spoiled **** get everything they want... Instead of spending thousands of dollars on clothes, I'd go to Greenland :)

Amazing great photo eye!!!! increidble landscapes

I tried to answer via web searches to no avail...does anyone know what kind of roofing material is in common usage in Greenland villages? Most homes seem to have some sort of seamless membrane system. Anyone know what it is?

What an amazing place. I hope it will be like this forever. Great photos.

dayuuuummmnnn...

The landscapes are just amazing!
Something similar about Iceland would be very welcome!

I'm stunned... I'd move there if it wasn't so cold ;)
Keep them coming, I love TBP!

The Inuit (Eskimo) way of life that was "lost" on Greenland is beautifully captured in Jean Malaurie's classic book, THE LAST KINGS OF THULE: With the Polar Eskimos as They Face Their Destiny

Incredible, I love the colourful houses. Added to my list of travels.

"interesting to note the lack of driveways and any cars in photo #31.
more of a bicycle, boat, xc skiing and snowmobile way of life?"

Cars are of little use in Greenland, since there are no roads between towns and villages; you go by boat or helicopter if you need to travel from one town to another.
Nuuk (pop. 15,000) has paved roads and quite a number of privately owned cars as well as a lot of taxis (highest density of taxis in the world compared to the population) and busses for public transportation. Oh, two of the intersections in Nuuk have actual traffic lights. :)

Simply stunning pics.

Such beauty! love the contrast between the white/blue of the water and ice and the houses.

#6, #7...What a cool Queen! She obviously respects the local customs and garb, as evidenced by the dress of the choir in #8. So different from Canada's Queen, who tends to impose British customs on us.

I like the pictures, but you should keep the "this glacier did this due to global warming" comments out of it. They are unfounded. If you want to present your pictures, which are very nice, just present them.

Leave the global warming/climate change debate for a different forum.

Why must you ruin a beautiful thing and bring in a political debate? The Globe can't ever get things quite right, can they?

this is awsome!

Great pictures! Do you have any taken during the winter months?

What scenic beauty!!! Quite takes ur breath away

I have fallen in love, with Greenland
amazing pictures!!

@ Martin Levenson: When has Queen Elizabeth II ever imposed a custom on you? We're completely independent and sovereign! We may have some customs and traditions left over from being a part of the Empire but they're figurative in nature only.

Fantastic images as always Alan. And I agree with the statement made above: Edmonton AB is as far north as I want to live too!

splendid !

#33 made my heart skip a beat! I want to go ballooning over Greenland now. Absolutely beautiful.

@52: So you want pictures of bleak darkness?

Great pic! leave the global warming.
best winter month.

Beautiful!

these pictures made me thirsty

Wanna visit this country now!

fantastic!!!

thank you,
I was looking and reading the captions for about an hour. I am from Australia, and these images are so different to me

Greenland is beatiful by day, but at night it's spectacular!!! One great place to watch the aurora borealis (http://greenland2007.blogspot.com/2008/06/20070914-aurora-boreal_7070.html)

Awesome pics!

@50
didn't it also say: "ACCORDING TO a US study published last year" ... It is YOU who brings in the political debate, not the Boston Globe.

#30 : sublime !

I loved the pictures. Well done. This is an area of the world we know so little about, perhaps they are ahappy, peaceful people.

#50 Too many people associate global warming with a man made event. The glacier is receding due to global warming, which is true. What is in question (regardless of what the eco-terrorists say) is whether it is a man-made phenomenon or part of the earth/sun natural cycle.
Humans have only been measuring and recording temperatures for a hundred years or so. What was the accuracy of the instruments used back then? Those readings are completely unreliable compared to todays standards.
Science tells us 200 years is a blip of a blip of a blip in the history of the earth (regardless of what the churchs say). To accurately analyze weather patterns we need to look at thousands of years of data. In other words, we need to look at the Big Picture :)

Absolutely beautiful. The homes look small but rugged.

thanks for theses awesomes pictures !

Beautfull!!

Exactly right #50! Even if "global warming" wasn't the huge scam that it is, I'd bet Greenlanders wouldn't mind being a little warmer - it still looks plenty cold up there.

Ce sont de très belles images ...
Quelle lumière sur la numéro 4 !

by lookig beautyful views and organised peaple i pray all mighty that if u want to born me again in to this wold,please born me like this place but not like pakistan muslim hell.

I live in Oregon and am so use to seeing trees. Are there any trees there?

Unfortunately, #50, you are the one that is being unreasonable. There is no debate at all that the planet is warming. The evidence is everywhere. The debate has been over whether the warming is caused by human activity, or is part of a natural cycle. Which brings us to...

Poster #72. Since you are convinced that it is all a giant scam, perhaps you could post some conclusive evidence that the vast majority of researchers from across the scientific spectrum (who don't work for the fossil fuel industry), have somehow all agreed to march in lockstep on a giant conspiracy from which they won't profit at all, and which has no obvious reason for existing. Conjecture and hearsay aren't enough to justify playing Russian roulette with the planet's fate.

#76. Slipstream there is plenty of evidence going against glodbal warming also here are some random things that most people arnt aware of for no one is allowed to speak out against somthing this big: Carbon emisions have virtually no cause on global warming and are infact one of the SMALLEST of the green house gasses, less than 1% and the number of human caused carbon emissions is even smaller. the largest greenhouse gas filling are atmosphere is water vapor and 99% of that comes from the oceans seas and lakes of our world. and while it may be true that the world is going through a warming stage, it is also true that around 30 years ago everyone was worrying about the ICE AGE to come...

#76 there certainly is debate. Maybe you should stop drinking the kool-aid and pay attention to reality. Beautiful pictures san the political comments.

Amazing pictures! Thank you

#76: very well put. It's ironic--but also kinda sad--that those convinced that anthropogenic global warming is a farce constantly refer to those who have been convinced through the abundant scientific data that it is indeed real as 'sheep' and 'Kool-Aid drinkers', when they themselves have gotten their far-less-than scientific opinions off of the same right wing talk shows and oil industry websites as all the other Deniers. We can only hope that, at least this once, truth triumphs over narrow-minded and selfish special interests, and that folks realize that the greater good of taking care of the earth far outweighs the 'convenience' of maintaining the petroleum-based status quo.

But I digress: beautiful photos indeed.

Truly Awesome, this is a place where you just want to visit....over and over.

Recientes a la vida compleja de la Democracia,pero con un gran aliado para soportar sus riesgos,tienen la fuerza y belleza de lo natural.

I loved scandinavia and am so sorry I missed Greenland....will put this at the top
of my list to go. Beautiful country.

Wonderful pictures

How wonderful is Greenland, the most beautiful place of the world.

I've been to Kulusuk. It's a great place to visit.

Gorgeous! I had no idea that it wasn't an independent country.

What the hell? I thought Greenland was green!

what a charming place,i'd love to visit

28 is beautiful... as always, thanks for sharing.

breath taking!

The humidity is very low less than 5% so 35 F feels like 65 F. I spent over 6 months at Thule with winter temperatures of - 40 F and winds that sometimes reached 100 mph somewhat chilly but with appropriate artic clothing manageable.
Before I check out, I would like to find out why the Artic hares were at least 25 to 30 lbs. about twice the size of the foxes. The musk Oxen were enormous while living in area almost bare of plants.
I highly recommend a trip of 3 to 4 months to explore Greenland, specially Ultima Thule and Station Nord (The Northern most inhabited location).

Being a Dane, I am thrilled Greenland is now on the verge to become a separate country. It has cost the Danish government and the Danes a lot to keep this far away place afloat. I certanly hope the Faeroe Islands will be next.
The pictures are gorgeous though.

This is a beautiful country indeed, but they have many problems and it will be a long time until they can become fully independent, the population is 50.000 people, the country is very poor, they have a lot off social problems like, heavy drinking, Cannabis smoking, very high if not the highest suicide rate in the world and a big problem with child abuse as well.
But they are my Neighbors and i care for them, i wish them all the best and they are on the last steps on becoming independent country, the last steps are the hardest.

Congratulations on your coming into self -government. I hope the United States learns from Denmark that people have an inalienable right to independence. Puerto Rico should be enjoying its path towards its independence, as Greenland will surely enjoy in the near future.
May God keep your people and country in health and prosperity.

Great Pictures

great pictures

Great and sooo suprise pitctures..
!!!!!

Awesome ................. images

As someone living in the tropical end of the world..i'm always facinated by Greenland, despite the differences in weather, the issues of resources, energy and sovereignty are almost similar. Thank you for the wonderful pictures revealing the myths of the cold land faraway.

rapture... isn't it?

#34 beautiful last photo

Great pictures as always.

Though for the first time I felt that the proper context (location) was not set for the pictures. In cases of pictures of big cities, the reader is aware of the context but for isolated areas such as this it would be great if you could show the google map for the area as the first (or second) photo and possible with geotags for the photos. I know it will take more work but its an idea.

Great Pictures

Wow the View makes ourself to reach there..

Tasiilaq is amazing! Best hotel room view ever:
http://www.photodiary.org/ph_h_4198.shtml

i love this pictures :-)

Tényleg szép, de lakna ott a faszom...

Excellent pictures of the summertime and daylight environment of Greenland. Much of the year it is in gloom and darkness, the brilliant and long days pictured here must be treasured for the light and life they bring to this northerly land.

And cultists please note, a millennium ago Greenland was a much warmer place that supported agriculture not possible in recent centuries.

espectaculares fotografias, en el fin del mundo... que sobrecogedores paisajes... las imagenes me sirvieron como vía de escape y obtener algo de paz... en esta oficina en pleno centro de santiago de Chile
saludos... felicitaciones... gran portal..

wonderfull picture.

People who liked those picture will sure love the picture from my uncle trip to Antarctica.

Here they are:
http://www.lobsang.fr/lobsang/2009/05/11/mes-derniers-voyages/

Whole world looks beautiful as long as vegitation, Animals, Birds, Fishes, Insects ,Germs, Virus and even the innocent Human beings are there; the moment the killing cults like Islam and Christianity arrive, they will make a hell of any natural heaven.

Anyone who has been to Greenland knows the "early morning sun" and the "evening sun" last all day as Greenland enters and exits the summer period of 24-hour sunlight.

These pictures are amazing. I would love to go there sometime.

I lived in Greenland for 3 months in 2006, as an artist-in-residence at Upernavik Museum (photos 21, 27 & 31) so it's great for me to see this amazing and little-known country through such great photographic imagery. Thanks!

I can only say that Greenland is as beautiful as these wonderful pictures suggest. My wife and I and two friends kayaked for 8 days in the west-central fjords near the town in photo 2, thanks to a trip arranged by Worldwide Paddling Adventures. We stood looking at the millions of ice fragments spilling out from Jakobshaven glacier at midnight on July 3, 2008, exactly one year earlier than photos 23 and 30. Accomodations in the small towns are very comfortable, in the Scandanavian style, and the local people are friendly. Camping and paddling in this stunningly harsh and beautiful place is something we will never forget.

Awesome pics of nature and macankind living simple.....just awesome

South Africa

Hamlet Castrodad said: "I hope the United States learns from Denmark that people have an inalienable right to independence. Puerto Rico should be enjoying its path towards its independence"

You need to research your topic more fully. The people of Puerto Rico have been voting repeatedly AGAINST independence for forty years. If they don't want it then who are you, I, or anyone else to urge that they should have it?

Simply put, people don't have an inalienable right to independence. They have an inalienable right to SELF-DETERMINATION and the people of Puerto Rico have repeatedly made their feelings on that point clear.

it is heaven on earth

hiii
how are you
im from pakistan
and im student i want wist the beautiful GREENLAND
how i can reach? please infome me i will b thankfull to you
and im waiting ur reply thanks

It's one of finest feast of rarest and beautiful trip i had ever had by my 'Laptop' Airways !
Thanks for choosing me as one of the luckiest travelers !

Pradeep Dixit
India

Beautiful...great job.. I just love the blog

what about global warming?
dont show us the beauty...sing a song to save the planet

Great Photos, The world is stiil beautiful..just needed to be preserved.

What are the cargo containers for in pic#13?

#126, if Greenland is anything like rural Alaska then the answer to the question "What are the cargo containers for?" is probably "Anything and everything manufactured." The isolated rural arctic is at least seasonally rich in natural resources such a fish, berries, caribou, and minerals ...but there is little to no industrial manufacturing or processing of resources into finished goods. So anything like medical equipment, machine parts, consumer items, and processed food is mainly imported in containers.

Greenland is high on my list of places to visit because I am a glowhound -a mineral collector (rockhound) with a special interest in fluorescent minerals which glow under UV. After Franklin, New Jersey, the ultraviolet reactive minerals of Greenland may be the most spectacular in the world. Check out the photo gallery of specimens at the Coolworldminerals page on Greenland by MinerShop, URL:
http://www.minershop.com/html/greenland_fluorescents.html

wow what a place to be looks like god has himself hand picked the best articles to decorate it , really salute the creator

soo beautiful. however the name suggests that it must have been a lot greener when Leif Erikson discovered it.

orj...torrak! absolutely great :) nuann!!!

#113, actually nearly 80% of the population is already Christian, and they aren't killing anyone yet. Maybe you should consider your own bias.

It's a shame folks can't look at a bunch of pictures and enjoy them for what they are, without interjecting a lot of nonsensical babbling and whining about religion, politics, "global warming" or whatever. If you don't like what the story says, cry to the editor in an email. No one whats to read your little rants.

Beautiful images, btw.

*thinks* So where's the done dummy who says "Shopped!"

These are wonderful. Many thanks. I live in a desert...

Beautiful photography of a wonderful spot on our earth. Thank You.

Fantástico, um dia quem sabe ainda irei conhecer este lugar abençoado por DEUS e bonito por natureza!!

CD.´.

Que Espectaculo de Lugar, Maravillosas tomas del paisaje de Groelandia, como decia un amigo en su comentario anterior, lo relajante de las fotos te llevan a un nivel de paz espiritual unico. Bella isla envidio a sus moradores, mucha salud y crecimiento poblacional para ellos.

gracias portal por presentar tan Maravillosa isla de nuestor Planeta.

Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela.

Greenland beauty fight. Gigantic struggle for existence
Thanks to the magic images
Budapest, Hungary

What an amazing place! I've always wondered why Greenland was considered part of Europe when the population is clearly native North Americans. Maybe i'ts because Europeans drew the map. ;-)

Great photography - stunning iceberg shots.

There is no debate that Global Warming is occuring to those of us in the Earth Sciences. We have been stating for the last 100 years or so that the earth is in an interglacial warming trend and has been for the last 10,000 years. There have been 3 major periods of Continental Glaciation(Tahoe, Tenaya, Tioga) over the last 200,000 years. That means for those who don't know that the Earth gets cold and continental glaciers form (imagine a mile thick slab of ice over New York), and then the world heats up and the ice melts. The Great Lakes region is still rebounding from the last ice age at the rate of 1 inch per year folks! It is normal! and not man caused..

omg.. I have the same Burton jacket as that guy on the far left in picture 5...

oh yeah, and... ice ice baby

The landscapes are just amazing!

greenland should be asked to be canadian

69: I guess, if by "eco terrorist" you mean most mainstream scientists. It must be nice being conservative with all your easy, corporate-apologist conspiracy theories.

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Posted by Slipstream August 8, 09 12:57 PM

[...]
Conjecture and hearsay aren't enough to justify playing Russian roulette with the planet's fate.
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But that's not the point, the planet will survive and if current life was damaged is being damaged in the process, then it will grow again.

It is US we should be worried about. We may not be able to cope with the differences we are inducing to the planet.

splended, beutiful

hey alan hope youre doing well!

i was wondering if you keep an archive of these pics in high quality. i'd love to take a few and make them wallpapers.

I spent a year up there, 1950-51 in the Air Force flying a rescue B-17 alternating between BW-1 ( Narsarssuaq) and BW-8 (Sondrestromfjord). There is much more shoreline visible today then there was then so things are certainly getting warmer. The glaciers are receding and the melt lakes up on the cap are larger and more prevalent.

Climate indeed experienced changes as big as what we are about to see in the future, but not at such a fast rate. And much more important - especially to people who still use the argument of natural variability - , it can now be comprehensivly explained what part of recent climate change is natural and what part is un-natural/anthropogenic. With that knowledge one can split up climate change into different contributors and realize that the recent climate change is to a large part man-made. When studying climate science you actually do the research and find these results. On what, I may ask then, do climate-sceptics base their statements?

Love the pictures. How hopeless it must be to be walking in #33 and realize how much farther you have to go!

As for the global warming arguments. Glaciers are getting smaller. The ice caps are getting smaller. There aren't any glaciers in the whole wide world that are getting bigger. I don't know why people latch on to crazy ideas like Holocaust denial, moon-landing denial, global warming-denial, etc. I blame public schools and parents for not teaching rigorous skeptical theory. After all, these people can type and are clearly not retarded. So what's the problem?

Greenland makes my boobies hot.

Great pictures...

I'm in the other extrem, in the south of the american's continent, in Chile.
Cheers to all, is a beautiful site!

Great beauty....

One of the best 100 places to visit before I die... :)

whats a greatest picture i ever seen..thanks i really like all beatifull view.

exillent pictures.......

I have nothing to say! Just amazing!!!

Because of "global warming", now there are wildflowers in Greenland (pics #9 and #26) : OMG, isn't it HORRIBLE : flowers instead of ice ?

is pictures beutiful!!!!!!!!!!

WoW! I hope to see these landscapes one day for real, but this was a nice fill-in.

Great pictures. Do cruise ships ever go there? And thanks for the decent pixel count - some other people have ruined their pictures by downsizing them.

Brilliant, these pictures speak volumes for the beauty of greenland...hope,whn i ever visit these places,they would be as breathless as the pictures show them to be!! Thankyou!

Just... wow! Nice photo set. Thanks to your photographers :)

94 square kilometers is not 60 square miles :-)

Remote places nice.

sooo........ what did the Danish do all these years? Greenland looks primitive, almost no sign of civilisation... just poor people hardly making a living. and they call this part of Denmark? a civilised European country?

Oh earth, oh earth, how wonderful it is to be alive on this beautiful planet.

Beautyful pictures, love them...
Gyonyoru kepek!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bye

I love the cool polor beear

wanna see it quickly.very beautifull!!!

i like it there

Answer to #94: The Danes have taken all the values (material and non-material) away from the Inuit population (including the right to use their original names given at birth. Therefore, I find it quite appropriate that Denmark (my country) realizes that it is payback time. I call for support for Kalaalit Nunaat for many more years. Erik. http://www.olbec.com/tas.htm

very interesing

very good collection , keep it up.

i have never seen such a place it toally blows my mind

Beautiful pictures :)

@75 (anawr) -- I hope your wish comes true.

Nice pictures and are there any trees?

v.v.v beautifull never seen before, I Love to see all this live.

i love this website.. for the great pictures

26 what a fantastic photo

oh....1 will go to greenland

WoW~
But Greenland righ????
spring?? folow??

your photos are breath-taking

Brilliant, these pictures speak volumes for the beauty of greenland...

It's really beautiful, I hope It won't become a turistic place

Re: Post 113,
96% of Greenlanders are Christian.

Beautifull pic's.

Re: Post 185,
i.e. 96% of Greenlanders are poor, unfortunate, lost souls.

Is this place for real? So beautiful and yet so lonely...

Thanks for the pictures, I enjoyed them.
The houses have a stove pipe out the top. What do they burn in the stoves? There are no trees there.
Where do they get material to build a house?
I didn't see any electric line poles in the pictures. Do they have underground cables? Do they have electricy?
I live near Austin TX, USA

I'm really impressed. The pictures are great. Years ago, the US Air Force was going to send me to Thule. The orders were cancelled at the last minute. Too bad, I think I missed a real great assignment.

I've decided that my next great adventure will take me there!

Thanks for the great glimpse, Pete in Arizona

THE PICTURES ARE VERY NICE.THEY MAKE ME SAY WOOOOOOO;

It's a beautiful place, don't know if I'll be able to ever go there, but thank you to the photographers for taking me there by sharing photos. It's beautiful I must say again; we all have mishaps in life, no matter where we are, so nobody anywhere has a perfect life, it's what you make it, I truely think any place can be beautiful as long as there is good meaning and good choices made.

wow beutiful place I guess very cold would like to see it some time,

from Bryan
from beutiful Rainbow nation

South Africa

Green land area so bueaty full to green land area people if are agery.
my is plan world area people life all time stay on area green land.
world people life stay green land and next world area people used to vist-tower enjoy this life.
Totel world people onley is *(7000000000).
Eyes countrol and hendel people life used able so change enter to enjoy life strat.
All of the world used able work life totel cancel to why is this work.
people life used able point(lounch,shose,fabric,food to every time awey able of world at a time world level to above redy used point people life.
people life (200 hunderd years) above to used people life used able point nathing the End.
why is life i am say to Enjoy this life. GOING.

very nice nature of our an only Earth, save our Earth.
Greetings from sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina.