GREENLAND IS a wild, hostile place. It’s isolated, cold and sparsely populated: it spans two million square kilometres, making it the world’s largest island, but is home to just 60,000 people. It’s a landscape that is simultaneously stunning and barren, with around two-thirds of the country sitting within the Arctic Circle, and 80 per cent of it blanketed with ice.
At first glance Greenland seems far from hospitable; it’s a frigid world of ice caps and glaciers, mountains and permafrost, and boasts the coldest temperature ever recorded in the northern hemisphere (-69°C). Yet, despite the island’s undeniably testing conditions, it’s far from empty. In fact, hosts of species are not only surviving in Greenland—they’re thriving.
From sea eagles to reindeer, Arctic foxes to polar bears, hooded seals to walruses, Greenland and its surrounding waters are inhabited by an array of
