Animals of Greenland

Animals and Wildlife.

Some of the animals, wildlife you can encounter during your Polar Adventure.

Polar Bears- Thanks to targetted research, conservation efforts and circumpolar coopertation, the polar bear population is safe throughout the Artic.

Huskies - Mans best friend - never more evident in the cold world of the artic..

Seals.

Musk Oxen grazing. The herds apparently have no structure, but the head bull frowns on any potential rival.

Arctic Fox - white arctic fox in summer coat. In Greenland two races occur: the white inland fox and the blue coastal fox. The hunters had to wait for the winter coat to colour out in late October before setting their traps.

The walrus population in East Greenland seems to be making slow progress. These animals which weigh approximately 1000 kg, make fine headway in the water and may make light work of upsetting small boats.

Netting appats in Savissivik. Each year, the village nets around 50,000 of these little birds to be eaten either raw as they are caught, boiled or made into Kiviaq. Appats are a main part of the Polar Inuit diet.

Mussel shells garnish a piece of old whale vertebrae on the shore. Mussels are abundant in the protected back waters of most fjords.

Seagull nests like this one are common among the thousands of small islands that skirt Greenland's coast. Eider ducks and terns are also abundant.

Arctic Hare.

Barnacle geese spend winter in the British Isles but breed in Northeast Greenland. The arrival of the geese in mid-May aroused yearning and activity in the hunters, who themselves were migatory.

Text courtesy of Frozen Horizons by Ivars Silis