Nuuk, April 8, 2026 (AFP) - Slow boat to Ilulissat: long nights on Greenland's last ferry

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2026-04-08

It's Friday night and the port in Nuuk is a hive of activity. Passengers loaded down with heavy bags hurry aboard a rusty red and white ship -- Greenland's last ferry. Among them are an ethnologist and a few Danish tourists, but most are Greenlanders from the 74 villages and settlements that dot the west coast, a thin strip of land squeezed between the ice sheet and the open sea just south of the Arctic Ocean. Linking Qaqortoq in the south to Il......

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