The Abandoned Cryolite Mining Town of Ivittuut
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2020
Near the southern tip of Greenland, lies the old mining town of Ivittuut, now a collection of ramshackle houses and sheds and scattered piec...
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Inuit Snow Goggles
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2019
This man, wearing a pair of strange goggles is not trying to make a fashion statement. He is just getting ready for a trek across the froze...
Qinngua Valley, Greenland’s Only Forest
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 25, 2019
Greenland is actually quite white and blue, due to all the glaciers that cover the world’s largest island like frosting on a cake. But near ...
Robert Peary’s Meteorite And Minik
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2018
Many historical figures are celebrated for achieving great things but conveniently forgotten of all the terrible things they did to other pe...
Peary Land, The Land of Extremities
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 17, 2018
The northern tip of Greenland, despite being situated a little over 700 km from the north pole, is entirely ice free and has been for the la...
Inuit Tactile Maps of Greenland
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 10, 2017
Like everybody else, the Inuit people of Greenland have been making maps to navigate the rugged coastline, but unlike maps made on paper, th...
The Terrifying Beauty of Melting Icecaps
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 23, 2017
Every summer, as the air warms up and the sunlight beats down on the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, pools of brilliantly blue melt ...
Elephant Foot Glacier
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 6, 2015
The Elephant Foot Glacier in northeastern Greenland, looks like a bowl of batter that has been poured over a pan. The sheer pressure of the ...
The Beautiful Uummannaq Island, Greenland
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2015
Uummannaq is a picturesque island and town in the Qaasuitsup municipality, in northwestern Greenland, located 590 kilometers north of the Ar...
Uunartoq Hot Springs in Greenland
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 1, 2015
Hot springs are abundant in South Greenland, but the island of Uunartoq is home to the only hot springs in the country that are warm enough ...
Towing Icebergs Away From Oil Platforms
Kaushik Patowary
May 2, 2014
Every year 20,000 to 40,000 icebergs are born out of glaciers in Greenland and carried away by the currents and into the North Atlantic wher...
