http://www.odyssei.com Greenland, - lately on the site en-us Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:54:56 +0100 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:54:56 +0100 pet@odyssei.com (Piotr Jaworski) pjm@odyssei.com (Pawel Jaworski) http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24652.html Required travel documents for Greenland: passport [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24652.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24447.html Electric power: 220V / 50 Hz [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24447.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24111.html Area code to Greenland: +299 [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24111.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13487.html in 1972 a burial site containing a number of mummies around 500 years old was found underneath a cliff overhang. These mummies are the oldest known find of such well-preserved human remains. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13487.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/3955.html Qilakitsoq is an ancient Eskimo settlement on the Muussuaq peninsula. In 1972 a burial site containing a number of mummies around 500 years old was found underneath a cliff overhang. The mummies are the oldest known find of such well-preserved human remai [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/3955.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/3954.html Nanortalik means 'place of bears'. It is Greenland's southernmost town, the district border extends all the way from the island Qeqertarsuaq, north west of Alluitsup Paa to the Cape Farewell area and to the 60 kilometers long Lindenow Fjord in Ea [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/3954.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/3953.html Qaqortoq means "the white". The town was founded in 1775 and today, with more than 3,500 inhabitants, it is the largest town in South Greenland. 3,200 of the inhabitants live in the town itself, while the rest live in the three surrounding settle [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/3953.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/3952.html Kangerlussuaq is located at the head of the fjord with the same well-chosen name meaning 'the long fjord'. The fjord is actually 160 km in length. Kangerlussuaq is a former US airbase, Bluie West 8 built in 1941, but after technological progress [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/3952.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/3951.html Sisimiut means 'inhabitants by the fox burrows'. With its 5,900 inhabitants divided between the town and the nearby settlements of Kangerlussuaq, Sarfannguaq and Itilleq, Sisimiut is the second largest municipality in Greenland. It is located nor [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/3951.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/3950.html Kangaatsiaq means 'rather small promontory'. The town is the youngest in Greenland, since it did not receive municipal status until 1986 - but the settlement itself is naturally much older. Around 600 people live in the town and another 900 in th [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/3950.html