Inuit cultures at the mercy of Mother Nature
People have lived in Greenland for more than 4500 years, although there have been long periods when the country has been completely uninhabited because conditions made it impossible. This could have been due to a lack of animals to hunt or in the event of a change of climate that made conditions too harsh for survival. Excavations from throughout Greenland and finds of ruins, tools, bones and clothing bear witness to highly developed cultures that immigrated in several separate waves.
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Greenlanders today are descended from the Thule people, who, unlike the first immigrants, were a maritime race that lived close to the coast and utilised the sea’s resources. The last known immigration from Canada took place in around 1860.
The final immigration in the Early Middle Ages was by Norse settlers, and unlike the earlier immigrations, the Norse settlers came from Iceland and Norway. It is the only race whose arrival in Greenland can be precisely dated, i.e. the year 982 AD, when Erik the Red set foot in South Greenland. The last that was heard of the Norse settlers, who were primarily farmers, was from reports of a wedding held in Hvalsey Church in 1408.
All over Greenland traces of the last immigrant cultures, in particular, can be seen today, and local museums and the National Museum in Nuuk contain comprehensive exhibitions of these cultures.

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| Date(s) of departure: | 6/12/2011, 6/19/2011, 6/26/2011 |






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