4 legends, 1 gem & mineral ground on the free Club 49 adventure map
What the map holds here
Hvalsey ChurchLegend The best preserved Norse ruin in Greenland, a church about 16 by 8 metres built of granite fieldstone with shell mortar and walls a metre and a half thick, in the Anglo-Norwegian style of the early thirteenth century, seating... Open it on the map · Read the story
Ilímaussaq & tugtupiteGem & mineral ground A mountain complex in southern Greenland that is one of the strangest mineral places on Earth: Ilímaussaq is the type locality for more than two dozen minerals found almost nowhere else, and it is the home of tugtupite, the... Open it on the map
The Ilulissat IcefjordLegend Sermeq Kujalleq is the most productive glacier in the northern hemisphere. It moves 20 to 35 metres a day, and it empties down forty kilometres of fjord into Disko Bay, calving about 20 billion tonnes of ice a year. Some of the... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Qilakitsoq mummiesLegend On 9 October 1972 two brothers, Hans and Jokum Grønvold, were out after ptarmigan on the Nuussuaq Peninsula and looked under an overhanging cliff. There were eight people under it, in two graves a metre apart, fully clothed,... Open it on the map · Read the story
The QivittoqLegend In Greenlandic Inuit tradition the qivittoq is one who has left the settlement to live alone in the mountains, whether cast out or in despair, and in the immense silence of the ice becomes something more than human: gaining... Open it on the map · Read the story
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Each entry links to the record it came from. Access rules, permits and land status vary by country and are noted where the source states them, check locally before you go.
