Greenland and the Future

• Published in: Environmental Conservation
• Main Author: Taagholt, Jørgen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1980
• Subjects: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Pollution; Water Science and Technology; Arctic; Bering Strait; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Greenland; Arctic Archipelago; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892900008079; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0376892900008079

About 4,000 years ago the first Eskimo tribes reached Northern Greenland after a migration taking some thousands of years from Asia via the Bering Strait, then along the North American coastal areas and over the Canadian Arctic archipelago. They settled primarily in the northernmost part of Greenland, where archaeological finds are the basis of our knowledge of their life. Subsequent waves of immigration resulted in settlements to the south, along Greenland's east and west coasts (Fig. 1).