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  Greenland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greenland is the world's largest island, and is the largest dependent territory by area in the world.
Greenland was one of the Norwegian Crown colonies from the 11th century until 1814, when it was transferred to Denmark, although Norway and Denmark had been in a personal union for centuries (see Denmark-Norway).
All towns and settlements of Greenland are situated along the ice-free coast, with the population being concentrated along the Western coast.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greenland   (1647 words)

  
 University of Greenland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of Greenland (named Ilisimatusarfik, Kalaallit Nunaata Universitetia) is a university located in Nuuk, Greenland.
As of 2006, the university has approximately 120 students, almost all local inhabitants, and around 13 academic staff (21 staff in total).
This university or other tertiary education institution article is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Greenland   (153 words)

  
 General Information on traveling to and in Greenland
Greenlanders enjoy a unique position among the world's indigenous peoples in that Greenland is recognized as an autonomous nation residing within the Danish Kingdom.
Greenland's poets were the first to stimulate the people to seize the responsibility for their own destiny.
Contemporary Greenland is a modern society with industries, high-tech fisheries, an educational system which is on a par with that of any other nation; higher education has also been established in the country, the latest being the founding of Ilisimatusarfik - The University of Greenland in 1987.
www.minershop.com /html/greenland_info.html   (651 words)

  
 Language Technology in Greenland
Greenlandic in Greenland is not a symbolic language, and Greenland is not bilingual or Danish speaking.
Greenland is officially and in reality Greenlandic speaking, and this to such a degree that the lack of knowledge of the foreign languages Danish and English, especially amongst young people and children, poses a major problem to the education system.
Greenlandic survived on its own when it was exposed to a lot of pressure during the period of "danification", and it is today one of the most vital minority languages in the world.
cst.dk /dandokcenter/resultat/uk/Sprogteknologi_greenland_en.html   (4558 words)

  
 Colonialism in Greenland: An Inuit Perspective
After a new generation came to power in the National Council of Greenland in the beginning of the 1970s, the principle of Greenlandic ownership of land in Greenland was formulated, and was adopted by the National Council in 1975 (GLF 1975:226).
Greenlandic was retained as a subject in the schools, however.
Greenland had a seat in the negotiations, in due course of which any member may successfully argue its point of view in one case, and in another lose.
arcticcircle.uconn.edu /HistoryCulture/petersen.html   (6074 words)

  
 Greenland Home Rule Government - ExploreNorth
Although the aim was to develop Greenland for the benefit of Greenlanders, for some of them the G 60 policy represented a culture shock, which led to increasing social problems such as alcoholism and family breakdown.
Greenland is a constituent part of the Kingdom of Denmark, which is composed of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
Greenland is an independent police district with 17 districts under the command of the Chief Constable in Nuuk.
www.explorenorth.com /library/facts/greenland2000.html   (6865 words)

  
 IPY: International Polar Year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The project involves the Greenland Research Centre at the National Museum of Denmark, National Museum of Greenland, University of Copenhagen, University of Greenland, Upernavik Museum, Nanortalik Museum, University of Tromsø, Canadian Museum of Civilization and University of Toronto.
YES - The project is part of the ongoing research at the National Museum’s Greenland Research Centre endorsed by the Danish Research Council and in cooperation with the major of the in 1.7 mentioned institutions.
The project will be coordinated from the Greenland Research Centre at the National Museum of Denmark in cooperation with the Greenland National Museum and the University of Greenland.
www.ipy.org /development/eoi/details.php?id=747   (622 words)

  
 Early Greenland Kayaks - pg.1
Dutch whalers, plying the waters adjacent to Greenland in the late 1600s, brought back not only a wealth of whale oil and furs, but many artifacts acquired from the Greenlanders.
Lubbock continues: "By the year 1720, the Greenland whale had been chased away from the coast of Spitzbergen and even from the whaling banks.…" Finn Gad, in The History of Greenland, Vol.
Little is known about the histories of 11 Greenland kayaks thought to have been brought back by Dutch whalers between 1600 and 1800.
www.seakayakermag.com /2002/02Oct/greenland01.htm   (348 words)

  
 The University of Kansas Greenland’s glaciers moving faster, losing mass
LAWRENCE — Glaciers in Greenland are dissipating at more than twice the rate they did a decade ago, according to researchers from the University of Kansas and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The University of Kansas is a major comprehensive research and teaching university.
University Relations is the central public relations office for KU's Lawrence campus.
www.news.ku.edu /2006/february/17/glacier.shtml   (814 words)

  
 Adventures in Greenland, One of the Earth’s Last Wild Places   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Greenland remains one of Earth’s last wild places, with its pristine areas of semi-mythical proportions, its shimmering aurora borealis, its vast tundra, oceans with glittering columns of ice, and teeming wildlife including whales, walruses, and polar bears.
Moderated by Henriette Rasmussen, minister of culture, and Ole Marquardt, president of the University of Greenland.
Panelists: Ole Marquardt, president of the University of Greenland; and Henriette Rasmussen.
residentassociates.org /otomay/greenland.asp   (522 words)

  
 A Virtual Travel to Greenland - Kalaallit Nunaat - Grønland
The world's largest island, about 84% ice-capped, Greenland was granted self-government in 1978 by the Danish parliament.
Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, governed by the Home Rule administration.
The Danish artist (1897-1977) is best known for his paintings of the people and nature of Greenland.
www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/greenland.htm   (343 words)

  
 ARCUS | Annual Meetings and Arctic Forum
The scientific potential of a cabled seafloor observatory in the Arctic was explored by participants of an NSF-funded open workshop "Science and Education Objectives for a Seafloor Cabled Observatory on the Beaufort Shelf, Alaska" held in Barrow, Alaska, 7-8 February, 2005.
The Inglefield Land archaeology project (ILAP) is a long-term archaeological research project led by Christyann Darwent of the University of California, Davis, and Genevieve LeMoine of The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College, collaborating with Hans Lange, of the Greenland National Museum and Archives, and David Qaavigaq, of the Thule Museum...
Ilullisat on the west coast of Greenland is one of the most beautiful and unique areas in the world.
www.arcus.org /annual_meetings/2005/abstracts.html   (4186 words)

  
 University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives - Cooperative Societies in Greenland and Nunavik   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives - Cooperative Societies in Greenland and Nunavik
We present different types of cooperatives in Greenland and Nunavik, Canada, in order to assess two different developments.
Except for consumer cooperatives, the remaining types of supply and worker cooperatives were a failure.
www.wisc.edu /uwcc/info/rur_coops/rc_2002/coopa_2002_1_025.html   (177 words)

  
 Updated Rare Plant Taxonomy and Nomenclature
A synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada and Greenland.
The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
Cryptantha spiculifera (Piper) Payson (Identified in Hitchcock and Cronquist (1973) as a synonym for C.
www.dnr.wa.gov /nhp/refdesk/lists/bibliography.html   (2272 words)

  
 Selected Bibliography on Greenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Caulfield, Richard A. Greenlanders, whales, and whaling: Sustainability and self-determination in the Arctic.
Forudsætninger og konsekvenser." M.A. Thesis in Eskimology, University of Copenhagen.
(1948) "Greenland at the crossroads," Arctic 1:1, pp.
www.nunanet.com /~jhicks/greenbib.html   (9016 words)

  
 Living on Earth: Greenland’s Ice Melt
In just a few decades, 30 percent of polar sea ice has turned liquid and the two mile thick ice cap that's covered Greenland for thousands of years is melting away at its edges.
Recent observations by a team led by Richard Alley at Penn State University show that Greenland's ice caps are, in fact, already melting faster than expected.
ALLEY: Greenland looks like it is shrinking a little bit, and contributed global to sea level it's somewhere vaguely in the neighborhood of a quarter of a millimeter a year.
www.loe.org /shows/segments.htm?programID=05-P13-00049&segmentID=2   (1215 words)

  
 Travel Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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In regard to your question I can inform you that the University of Greenland do offer bachelors and master degrees within different fields.
The subjects taught are normally always related to Greenland sometimes to Greenland and Canadian Colonial History in the Arctic-Subarctic.
www.greenland.com /forum/guestbook/32.html   (263 words)

  
 Nuuk, Greenland, Pictures
Nuuk, formerly Godthåb, administrative capital and largest city of Greenland, located at the entrance of the Godthåbsfjord (Bay of Good Hope) on the southwestern coast of the island.
Nuuk is a cultural and educational center; Greenland's first and only university, the University of Greenland (1974), is here.
I had the opportunity to work aboard a small, polar cruise ship last summer, and was able to spend some time in Greenland.
www.greatestcities.com /North_America/Greenland/Nuuk_formerly_Godthab_city.html   (278 words)

  
 What TFF does month-by-month   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He gives an intensive one-week introductory course in peace studies at the Lumiere University and a lecture for the UNDP staff.
Chantal and he meets with a series of embassies and government officials plus the leadership of the UN mission, all to create goodwill for this community learningn and peace education centre.
University College London, UCL, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
www.transnational.org /tff/NewsAboutTFF.html   (359 words)

  
 AnthroGlobe Bibliography: Foraging Peoples M-R
Jayapura and Dallas: Cenderawasih University and Summer Institute of Linguistics.
The Eskimo Archaeology of Julianehaab District, with a Brief Summary of the Prehistory of the Greenlanders.
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol.
www.coombs.anu.edu.au /Biblio/biblio_forage5.html   (4190 words)

  
 IPY Proposal
Researchers and indigenous organizations as well as political and administrative authorities at different levels will be able to conduct analyses while making it impossible to view the micro data set itself.
At the national levels the responsibility of data is either with university departments or national statistical institutes.
In the future SLiCA´s secretariat is intended to be at Ilisimatusarfik/The University of Greenland.
www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu /projects/Living_Conditions/IPY_Full_Proposal.htm   (1744 words)

  
 Brown University
Febraury 16th: John Anderson, Loughborough University, U.K. "The Arctic and global change: the perspective from SW Greenland"
Tuesday 2/21/06: Stephen Porder, Stanford University; "Erosion, landscape development and the rejuvenation of fertility in tropical ecosystems." MacMillan 115 at 12:00 noon.
Monday, March 20th: Steve Parman, University of Durham: "Noble gas constraints on the chemical and physical evolution of the Earth" at 4:00pm in MM 115.
www.geo.brown.edu /Colloquia/Home.htm   (160 words)

  
 Royal Scottish Geographical Society : North American Expedition Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To sample various aspects of Polynesian culture, and to give its members a chance to see pristine tropical rainforest and eco-systems, together with some of the world's most active volcanic systems in operation, within an overall geographical-based framework.
Geomorphological research into the proglacial morphology and paleohydrology of some Holocene sandur deposits at the edge of the Greenland ice-sheet, as an aid both to determining the changes in ice-marginal hydrology during ice-sheet retreat, and to interpreting the origins of similar mid-latitude Pleistocene deposits;
To collect samples of gas and water from hot springs for the Greenland Geological Survey, and seaweed samples for the Danish Atomic Energy Department.
www.geo.ed.ac.uk /rsgs/expedits/reports/northam.htm   (1239 words)

  
 ILISIMATUSARFIK University of Greenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Department of Greenlandic Language, Literature and Media, Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland
The conflict seems to be a tension between the material and spiritual conceptions of life; a tension between the beliefs in spirits, ghosts and phenomena the like and the scepticism derived from the enlightenment of the technological and
Outcomes and Transferability: The subject on the popularity of the horror genre is not excluded to the Greenlandic youth, but it embraces youth (and the more mature) globally.
www.uaf.edu /uafrural/ISC/abstracts/WebAbstracts/Birgit_Kleist_Pedersen-Craving_For.html   (140 words)

  
 University of the Arctic - Contact Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
University of the Arctic - Contact Us home
Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, McGill University
Narvik University College (NUC) / Høgskolen i Narvik
www.uarctic.org /contact_form.asp?group=Members   (90 words)

  
 Bibliography - Digital Flora of Texas: General
Kartesz, J. A Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
Bailey, L. A preliminary synopsis of North American Carices, including those of Mexico, Central America, and Greenland, with the American bibliography of the genus.
Published by author, Howard Payne University, Brownwood, TX.
www.csdl.tamu.edu /FLORA/ftc/dft/bib_topg.htm   (4898 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of the Arctic
Director of the Arctic Centre of the University of Groningen
Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany
Department of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Aarhus, Denmark
www.routledge-ny.com /ref/arctic/contributors.html   (4565 words)

  
 TORRAK - education in Greenland
The following links to other web sites will give you much more information about the Greenlandic educational system and the momentary situation in our land.
Education in Greenland, by Karl Kristian Olsen, Director of Inerisaavik
Administration for culture and education of Upernavik district, north Greenland
www.torrak.com /st_e/ed_e/ed_e.html   (87 words)

  
 Tromsø Master Programme in Indigenous Studies, Centre for Sámi Studies, University of Tromsø   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Having studied history at the University of Tromsø, I felt there was a lack of perspective when it came to Sámi and other indigenous issues.
After my exchange studies at the University of Greenland, where the focus was very much on Inuit and indigenous issues and methodology, I was happy to see that the University of Tromsø was developing a Master’s of Indigenous Studies program.
Also, I liked that the MIS program was interdisciplinary since I already had an interdisciplinary degree.
www.sami.uit.no /master/kull2003/lena.html   (246 words)

  
 GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: Greenland
NATLEX (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights Entries are listed under Denmark
Natural Resources Legislation: Greenland (University of Denver College of Law)
Consular Information Sheets / Travel Warnings - Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands (U.S. Dept. of State)
www.loc.gov /law/guide/greenland.html   (73 words)

  
 IASSA IPY task-group
Csonka, Yvon, Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland –Greenlandic IPY Committee, IASSA President
Schweitzer, Peter, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks AK, USA – IASSA Past President, 2001-2004; IASSA Council Member, ffpps@uaf.edu
Tennberg, Monica, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland – Finnish IPY Committee.
www.uaf.edu /anthro/iassa/ipytask.htm   (337 words)

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