A chill summer In Kangaamiut
More than 60 small villages are scattered along the coastline and they are deeply connected with their surroundings.
Greenland has more than 60 small villages scattered along its more than 44,000 kilometers of mountainous coastline, and each one of these communities are deeply connected with their surroundings. We like to say that the sea, the sky, and the land are the building blocks of everyday village life, and few places embody this as well as Kangaamiut. A little more than 250 people inhabit this village at the mouth of the Eternity Fiord, one of Greenland’s most impressive fiordscapes with steep, towering peaks and hanging glaciers flanking a rich body of fishing waters used by locals through centuries.
... few places embody this as well as Kangaamiut.
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