Nuuk The ship docked here soon after seven .We had breakfast at La Terassa.and we disembarked on a walking tour just before nine. There was a short coach ride to the start of our tour and then an 18 year old high school student guided around, at a snails pace for the next 90 minutes. What she said was quite interesting but it was so cold and she had us stationary or almost stationary for most of the time so Chris was absolutely frozen, as were several of the other guests.
Nuuk is the capital of and most populous city in Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Nuuk is the seat of government and the territory's largest cultural and economic center. Nuuk contains a third of Greenland's population and its tallest building. Nuuk is also the seat of government for the Sermersooq municipality. In January 2024, it had a population of 19,872. The city was founded in 1728 by the Dano-Norwegian missionary Hans Egede. The new colony was placed at the Inuit settlement of Nûk and was named Godthaab ("Good Hope"). "Nuuk" is the Greenlandic word for "cape" and is commonly found in Greenlandic place names. It is so named because of its position at the end of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord on the eastern shore of the Labrador Sea. Its latitude, at 64°11' N, makes it the world's northernmost capital, only a few kilometres farther north than the Icelandic capital Reykjavík. When home rule was established in 1979, the authorization of place names was transferred to Greenlandic authorities, who subsequently preferred Greenlandic names over Danish ones.
The campus of the University of Greenland, hosting Statistics Greenland and the main holdings of the Public and National Library of Greenland, are at the northern end of the district, near the road to Nuuk Airport. Nuuk receives its electric power mainly from the renewable energy-powered Buksefjord hydroelectric power plant by way of a 132 kV powerline crossing Ameralik fjord over a distance of 5,376 m , the world's longest free span.
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There really was not much to see and we ended up at the museum , of which they were very proud. But there was too much in it and anyway Chris could not see anything. So we made for a pick up point for the shuttle bus but nobody knew exactly what time it was meant to be there and we had another 20 to 25 minutes wait out in the cold before it came .
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So we were really glad to be back on board by 1130. A pleasant lunch in the restaurant but this was also very cold. Then Chris braved a swim in the pool which she enjoyed especially the Jacuzzi. Then a siesta before having a coffee in the panorama lounge before they talk by Mila on the Norwegian explorer Nansen. After this we had a scone and cup of tea before the briefing at 5 o’clock. We liked the manner of Dave Katz.
At 6:30 there was a captains welcome cocktail party, which yet again was hardly without faults. The captain was called Pavlin Koev, he was from Bulgaria and had worked on the Explorer: we think we had had dinner with him once when he was the staff captain on the Explorer.
We had a drink and canopies in the panorama lounge before dinner in La Terassa at 8:30 when we went upstairs for coffee afterwards. Chloe, was singing in the panorama lounge, slightly too loudly for us so we soon retired to bed.