Nuuk is Greenland’s capital, where the new and the old meet in their unique Greenlandic fashion. A short walk from the colonial harbour with its beautiful old buildings brings you to “the board”, where the day’s catch of seal, birds and fish is sold. Nuuk means “the headland” and is situated at the tip of a large peninsula at the mouth of the gigantic fjord complex. Nuuk is also the oldest town in Greenland. It was founded by the missionary Hans Egede in 1728 after he had left his first settlement at the ... (more)