Nuuk - Get together

Nuuk means the cape or foreland and is located at the tip of a large peninsula by the mouth of the gigantic Nuuk fjord. The town is the oldest in Greenland, built by the Danish missionary Hans Egede in 1728, after he had abandoned his first settlement at the Isle of Hope all the way out by the Davis Strait.

The town is also the largest in Greenland with 14.272 inhabitants in addition to the 383 persons living in the settlements Kapisillit and Qeqertarsuatsiaat.

The municipal area is 105.000 km2, of which 19.000 km2 is ice-free. The ocean covers 6.500 km2.

Nuuk is the capital of Greenland where old meets new in a Greenlandic fashion. A short walk from the colonial harbour with its beautiful old buildings will take you past the local meat and fish market, where the days catch is sold. In Nuuk you can enjoy freshly caught seal, fish and birds every day of the year, and in season also caviar, berries and whale.

The modern administration buildings of the Greenland Home Rule Government lie next to Katuaq, the Greenland Cultural Centre, prized for its beautiful architecture and a huge variety of cultural events.

Being the capital, Nuuk also houses a university, teachers college, cathedral and the national Museum, where visitors can spend hours studying the prehistoric times of Greenland.

All sorts of landscapes ranging from high mountains to huge savannahs and of course the fjord itself with several glaciers offer many opportunities for hiking, sailing, hunting, and fishing. Geologically, the area is of outmost interest. The oldest stone was found on a little island in the archipelago, and the mountains contain precious stones and uranium ore.

For dinner enjoy fish, crab, whale, seal, reindeer, birds, musk oxen and scallops. Gather and eat stalks of the popular »Kvan« (Kuannit in Greenlandic), which is a green leaf-like vegetable (Angelica Archangelica).