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The History of Greenland: Ice, Isolation, and Strategic Power

Lucas and Luna navigate the frozen history of Greenland, from the first Thule people and Norse settlements to today’s strategic ice sheet. They explore how Erik the Red’s colony vanished, the fate of the Dorset and Norse cultures, and the island’s shift from Danish colony to home-rule nation. The podcast examines Greenland’s role in Arctic exploration (Peary, Rasmussen), World War II’s Bluie bases, and the Cold War’s Thule Air Base and lost nuclear bomb. Modern debates over independence, uranium mining, and melting ice are tied to the island’s deep history. Why has this remote land attracted empires for centuries, and what does its future hold as the Arctic ice retreats?

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Greenland's 1833 Hans Egede and the Birth of Kalaallisut

Aug 1, 2026 · 7:01

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Greenland's 1953 Referendum: The Vote to Become Danish

Jul 30, 2026 · 6:08

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Project Iceworm: The Secret Nuke Plan Under Greenland's Ice

Jul 30, 2026 · 5:58

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Hans Egede: The Apostle of Greenland

Jul 29, 2026 · 7:10

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Greenland's First Newspaper: Atuagagdliutit 1861

Jul 29, 2026 · 4:45

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Knud Rasmussen's Fifth Thule Expedition Across the Arctic

Jul 28, 2026 · 5:01

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Greenland's 1933 Cryolite Strike: Arctic Labor and Colonial Tensions

Jul 28, 2026 · 4:57

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Greenland's 2009 Self-Government: The Road to Independence

Jul 27, 2026 · 5:41

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The 1933 Court Ruling That Settled Greenland's Borders

Jul 27, 2026 · 7:31

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The 1966 Ice Core That Rewrote Climate History

Jul 26, 2026 · 8:41

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Greenland's 1982 Referendum: The Only Exit from the European Union

Jul 26, 2026 · 6:58

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Greenland's WWII Sledge Patrol: Arctic Guardians vs Nazi Weather Stations

Jul 25, 2026 · 5:09

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Greenland's 1952 Forced Relocation of the Inughuit

Jul 24, 2026 · 5:07

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Greenland's 1823 Vanished Colony: The Kongesarssuk Mystery

Jul 23, 2026 · 5:50

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Greenland's 1917 Land Claim That Shaped the Arctic

Jul 23, 2026 · 7:16

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The 1860 Qitdlarssuaq Migration from Baffin Island to Greenland

Jul 22, 2026 · 8:32

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Greenland's 1949 NATO Accession: The Deal That Sealed the Arctic

Jul 22, 2026 · 7:18

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The 1863 Qanaaq Migrant Saga: How Greenland's Ancestors Found a New Home

Jul 21, 2026 · 9:06

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Greenland's Norse Settlers: Why They Really Vanished

Jul 21, 2026 · 5:12

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Greenland's 1968 Polaris Missile Crisis with Denmark

Jul 20, 2026 · 9:34

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The 1932 Greenland War: Norway vs Denmark in the Arctic

Jul 20, 2026 · 6:56

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Greenland's 1979 Home Rule: The Quiet Revolution for Self-Government

Jul 19, 2026 · 5:41

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The 1968 B-52 Crash at Thule: A Nuclear Accident in the Arctic

Jul 19, 2026 · 8:37

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Greenland's 1888 Fridtjof Nansen Crossing of the Ice Sheet

Jul 18, 2026 · 6:58

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Greenland's 1818 British Mapping Expedition That Opened the Arctic

Jul 18, 2026 · 5:46

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Greenland's 1953 CIA Spy Base Project Iceworm

Jul 17, 2026 · 5:21

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Greenland's 1972 Marijuana Cultivation in the Arctic

Jul 17, 2026 · 3:48

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The Qivittoq: Greenland's Lost Hunters of the Ice

Jul 16, 2026 · 7:10

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Greenland's Forgotten Colony: The 1823 Danish Settlement That Vanished Without a Trace

Jul 16, 2026 · 7:30

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The 1931 Greenland Viking Ruin That Rewrote History

Jul 15, 2026 · 6:59

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Greenland's 1951 Defense Agreement: Cold War Arctic Alliance

Jul 15, 2026 · 7:39

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Greenland's Thule Air Base: Cold War Bargain That Reshaped the Arctic

Jul 14, 2026 · 6:45

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Greenland's 2009 Self-Government: A New Chapter

Jul 14, 2026 · 6:29

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Greenland's 1953 Constitution and the End of Colonial Status

Jul 13, 2026 · 8:32

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Greenland's 1734 Map That Claimed an Island That Doesn't Exist

Jul 13, 2026 · 5:16

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Greenland's 1979 Home Rule: The Path to Self-Government

Jul 12, 2026 · 6:02

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Greenland's 1920 Sovereignty: The Hunt for Østgrønland

Jul 12, 2026 · 7:59

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Greenland's 1953 Relocation of the Inughuit from Pituffik

Jul 11, 2026 · 8:06

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Greenland's 1737 Mystery: The Green Children of Qaqortoq

Jul 11, 2026 · 8:23

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The Narwhal Hunt Greenland's Last Subsistence Tradition

Jul 10, 2026 · 8:34

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The 1953 Harrigan Report and Greenland's Modernization

Jul 10, 2026 · 7:01

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The 1758 Greenland Trading Post That Changed Everything

Jul 9, 2026 · 9:39

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The Inughuit Dog Sled Patrol: Greenland's Arctic Guardians

Jul 9, 2026 · 11:24

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Greenland's 1889 Inughuit Migration to Qaanaaq

Jul 8, 2026 · 6:15

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Greenland's 1860s Coffee Crisis: Kaffemik and Colonial Trade

Jul 8, 2026 · 6:29

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The 1953 Danish Resettlement of Uummannaq: Forced Relocation in Greenland

Jul 7, 2026 · 5:20

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The 1924 Founding of Scoresbysund: Greenland's Last Colony

Jul 7, 2026 · 4:01

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Greenland's 1721 Hans Egede Mission: Colonization Begins

Jul 6, 2026 · 6:20

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Greenland's 1888 First Crossing: Fridtjof Nansen's Ski Expedition

Jul 6, 2026 · 6:58

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The 1860 Ikerasak Tragedy: Colonial Neglect in Greenland

Jul 5, 2026 · 5:16

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The 1931 Norwegian Occupation of East Greenland

Jul 5, 2026 · 6:29

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Greenland's 1818 Ross Expedition and the First Meeting with the Inughuit

Jul 4, 2026 · 8:06

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Greenland's 1940s Spy Mission: The Arctic Prospector Who Worked for the Nazis

Jul 4, 2026 · 7:25

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Greenland's Lost Norse Settlement The Western Settlement Mystery

Jul 3, 2026 · 9:02

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Greenland's 1961 Nuclear Reactor at Camp Century

Jul 3, 2026 · 7:08

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Greenland's 1972 Discovery of the Norse Farm at Qaqortukulooq

Jul 2, 2026 · 7:44

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Greenland's Thule B-52 Crash Nuclear Cleanup and Legacy

Jul 2, 2026 · 6:30

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Greenland's 1963 Icefish Boom That Changed the Economy

Jul 1, 2026 · 5:42

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Greenland's 1857 Uummannaq Massacre: Colonial Failure and Inuit Resistance

Jul 1, 2026 · 9:07

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Greenland's 1945 US Weather Stations: Secret Arctic Outposts

Jun 30, 2026 · 6:59

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Greenland's 1979 Home Rule Vote and the Rise of Modern Kalaallit Identity

Jun 30, 2026 · 8:49

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The 1950s Danish Modernization of Greenland: G50 and G60

Jun 29, 2026 · 6:52

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Greenland's 1922 Wreck of the Danish Mission Boat

Jun 29, 2026 · 4:43

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Greenland's 1728 Military Colony That Vanished

Jun 28, 2026 · 2:52

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Greenland's 1915 Kayak War: The Last Inter-Tribal Battle

Jun 28, 2026 · 6:49

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Greenland's 1979 Home Rule: The Quiet Revolution

Jun 27, 2026 · 4:29

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Greenland's 1953 Constitution: From Colony to County

Jun 27, 2026 · 6:33

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Greenland's 1968 Thule B-52 Crash: Nuclear Bombs on the Ice

Jun 26, 2026 · 8:34

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How the Cold War Gave Greenland a Constitution (1953)

Jun 26, 2026 · 8:38

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Greenland's 1933 World Court Victory That Defined Danish Rule

Jun 25, 2026 · 7:55

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Project Iceworm: The US Army's Secret Cold War City Beneath Greenland's Ice

Jun 25, 2026 · 7:56

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Greenland's 1912 Thule Station: The Trading Post That Changed Everything

Jun 24, 2026 · 5:10

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Greenland's 1932 Starvation That Reshaped Colonial Policy

Jun 24, 2026 · 6:07

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Greenland's 1959 Project Iceworm: The Frozen Secret

Jun 23, 2026 · 7:03

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Greenland's 1959 Lost Air Base at Cache Point

Jun 23, 2026 · 6:25

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Greenland's 1905 Coal Mining That Fueled the Arctic

Jun 22, 2026 · 6:19

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Greenland's 1728 Military Colony That Vanished

Jun 22, 2026 · 5:50

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Greenland's 1818 British Expedition and the Metal-Using Inughuit

Jun 21, 2026 · 6:32

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The 1932 Inuit Starvation That Shook Greenland

Jun 21, 2026 · 6:31

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Greenland's 1818 British Expedition: The Quest for the Northwest Passage

Jun 20, 2026 · 8:09

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Greenland's 1888 Crossing: Fridtjof Nansen's Epic Ski Trek

Jun 20, 2026 · 8:22

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The 1733 Smallpox Epidemic That Devastated Greenland

Jun 19, 2026 · 6:59

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Greenland's 1951 Thule Air Base: The Deal That Changed the Arctic

Jun 19, 2026 · 5:49

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Greenland's 1943 Weather War That Changed D-Day

Jun 18, 2026 · 5:53

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Greenland's 1728 Military Colony That Vanished

Jun 18, 2026 · 5:38

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The 1925 Thule Rescue That Saved an Explorer

Jun 17, 2026 · 7:23

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Greenland's 1951 US Base Treaty

Jun 17, 2026 · 5:31

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Greenland's 1953 Cold War Uranium Mining Deal That Almost Was

Jun 16, 2026 · 6:36

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Greenland's 1953 Forced Urbanization: The G60 Plan

Jun 16, 2026 · 5:32

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Greenland's 1919 Trade War: Denmark vs Norway in the Arctic

Jun 15, 2026 · 6:51

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Greenland's 1953 Integration: When Denmark Made It a County

Jun 15, 2026 · 8:26

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Greenland's 1972 Ban on Dogsledding: Tradition vs Modernity

Jun 14, 2026 · 7:42

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Greenland's 1979 Home Rule: How Kalaallit Won Self-Government

Jun 14, 2026 · 4:46

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Greenland's 1721 Mission That Sparked Colonization

Jun 13, 2026 · 7:43

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Greenland's 1721 Mission That Changed the Arctic

Jun 13, 2026 · 6:26

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Greenland's 1931 Radio Station That Connected the Arctic

Jun 12, 2026 · 5:01

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Greenland's 1850s Kayak Revolution and the Birth of Modern Sealing

Jun 12, 2026 · 6:02

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Greenland's 1933 World Court Victory That Defined Danish Sovereignty

Jun 11, 2026 · 6:22

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Greenland's 1959 Uranium Town That Never Was

Jun 11, 2026 · 9:01

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Greenland's 1854 Forced Relocation That Erased a Village

Jun 10, 2026 · 7:19

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Greenland's 1979 Home Rule: How Kalaallit Won Self-Government

Jun 10, 2026 · 6:27

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Greenland's 1921 Reindeer Collapse: When Science Failed

Jun 9, 2026 · 6:34

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Greenland's 1888 Glacier Crossing That Opened the Interior

Jun 9, 2026 · 5:38

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Greenland's 1818 Abandoned Village: When the Norse Returned

Jun 8, 2026 · 6:10

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Greenland's 1920 Kayak War: The Last Inuit Naval Battle

Jun 8, 2026 · 4:20

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Greenland's 1888 Glacier Crossing That Opened the Interior

Jun 7, 2026 · 6:57

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Greenland's 1968 B-52 Crash That Nearly Set Off a Nuclear Disaster

Jun 7, 2026 · 7:56

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Greenland's 1912 Dog Sled Revolution and the Thule Society

Jun 6, 2026 · 5:50

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Greenland's 1945 Uranium Awakening: Cold War Atomic Secret

Jun 6, 2026 · 7:18

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Greenland's Thule Air Base: The Cold War Deal That Reshaped the Arctic

Jun 5, 2026 · 9:05

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Greenland's 1903 Potato That Defied the Arctic

Jun 5, 2026 · 6:58

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Greenland's 1938 Abortion Trial That Shook Danish Rule

Jun 4, 2026 · 3:56

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Greenland's 1921 Reindeer Collapse: When Science Failed

Jun 4, 2026 · 8:09

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Greenland's 1951 Defense Agreement That Changed Everything

Jun 3, 2026 · 6:12

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Greenland's 1953 Integration: When Denmark Made It a County

Jun 3, 2026 · 10:52

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Greenland's 1737 Smallpox Epidemic That Nearly Wiped Out the Colony

Jun 2, 2026 · 10:40

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Greenland's 1850s Trading Revolution That Reshaped the Arctic

Jun 2, 2026 · 7:36

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Greenland's 1721 Mission: Hans Egede's Arctic Colony

Jun 1, 2026 · 7:12

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Greenland's 1862 Suicide Crisis: When a Colony Fought to Survive

Jun 1, 2026 · 7:29

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Greenland's First Woman: The Lost Saga of Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir

May 31, 2026 · 6:28

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Norse Greenland's Last Ship: The Knarr That Sailed into Silence

May 31, 2026 · 9:47

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Greenland's First Mapmaker: Claudius Clavus and the Arctic

May 30, 2026 · 4:50

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The Great Slaving Voyage of Bjorn Einarsson

May 30, 2026 · 4:07

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Greenland's First Maps: How Cartographers Invented the Arctic

May 29, 2026 · 6:38

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Greenland's Norse Law: The Althing That Failed

May 29, 2026 · 7:53

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Greenland's First Census: Counting a Colony in 1789

May 28, 2026 · 11:13

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Greenland's Norse Collapse: When the Settlements Vanished

May 28, 2026 · 7:56

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Greenland's First Inuk Explorer: Umeranaq's Arctic Journey

May 27, 2026 · 5:48

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Greenland's First Greenlanders: The Saqqaq Culture

May 27, 2026 · 6:02

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Greenland's 1979 Home Rule: A Subtle Break from Denmark

May 26, 2026 · 7:26

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Greenland's Thule Whaling: The Bowhead That Built a Civilization

May 26, 2026 · 7:39

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Greenland's 1979 Home Rule: A Quiet Revolution

May 25, 2026 · 8:11

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Greenland's Cold War Secret: The Lost Camp Century

May 25, 2026 · 5:51

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Greenland's Independence Movement: From Colony to Self-Rule

May 24, 2026 · 7:55

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Greenland's First Murder: The Althing Trial of Thorbjorn the Slayer

May 24, 2026 · 5:28

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The Greenland Ice Sheet: 3 Million Years of Earth's Memory

May 23, 2026 · 5:12

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Greenland's First Greenlanders: The Saqqaq Culture

May 23, 2026 · 5:44

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Greenland's Cold War Spy: The Kauffmann Treaty

May 20, 2026 · 5:26

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Greenland's Silk Road: The Forgotten Ivory Trade of the Thule

May 20, 2026 · 7:43

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Greenland's First Cathedral: The Bishop's Seat at Garðar

May 19, 2026 · 6:00

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Greenland's Thule Air Base: The Cold War Fortress That Never Left

May 19, 2026 · 4:55

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Greenland's First Tourist: The Strange Voyage of Henry Hudson

May 18, 2026 · 7:20

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Greenland's Kayak Revolution: The Qajaq and the Thule

May 18, 2026 · 8:43

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The Deforestation of Medieval Greenland: When the Trees Disappeared

May 17, 2026 · 5:16

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Greenland's WWII Spy: The Henrik Kauffmann Story

May 17, 2026 · 6:01

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Greenland's First Newspaper: Atuagagdliutit

May 16, 2026 · 4:37

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Greenland's First Murder: The Althing Trial of Thorbjorn the Slayer

May 15, 2026 · 5:16

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The Althing of Greenland: Norse Democracy at the Edge

May 13, 2026 · 4:57

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Greenland's Norse Cattle Farmers: Life Beyond the Shore

May 12, 2026 · 6:36

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Greenland's Norse Legal System and the Althing

May 12, 2026 · 6:01

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Greenland's Norse Farms: The Gården under Sandet Excavation

May 11, 2026 · 5:58

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Greenland's Norse Riddle: The Disappearance of the Eastern Settlement

May 11, 2026 · 8:10

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Greenland's Norse Book of Magic: The Runic Charms of Garðar

May 10, 2026 · 5:44

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Greenland's Norse Walrus Ivory Trade

May 10, 2026 · 4:32

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Polar Bears of Greenland: Hunters, Shamans, and Climate

May 9, 2026 · 9:04

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Greenland's Thaw: The Race for Arctic Independence

May 9, 2026 · 8:21

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Greenland's U.S. Consulate: The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

May 8, 2026 · 6:02

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Greenland's Uranium: The Quiet Battle for the Arctic's Riches

May 8, 2026 · 7:13

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Greenland's First Colonist: Hans Egede's Arctic Gamble

May 7, 2026 · 4:01

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Greenland's Ice Cap: The Explorers Who Conquered the Interior

May 7, 2026 · 9:10

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Greenland's Norse Bishop: Power and Piety at the Edge of the World

May 6, 2026 · 6:26

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The Thule Air Base: America's Arctic Outpost in Greenland

May 6, 2026 · 7:16

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Greenland's Norse Law and the Althing

May 5, 2026 · 6:16

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Greenland's First Tourist: The Man Who Climbed the Ice Cap

May 5, 2026 · 5:58

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The Man Who Sold Greenland: How a US Ambassador Nearly Bought the Arctic

May 4, 2026 · 5:22

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Greenland's Arctic Fox: The Fur That Built a Colony

May 4, 2026 · 5:39

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Greenland's Tearaway Son: The Henriette Expedition Disaster

May 3, 2026 · 8:22

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Greenland's Forgotten WWII Weather War

May 3, 2026 · 5:54

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Greenland's First Town: Godthåb and the Birth of Colonial Nuuk

May 2, 2026 · 5:35

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The Greenland Treaty: How Denmark Lost Its Colony

May 2, 2026 · 5:35

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Greenland's Siren: The De Long and Jeannette Disaster

May 1, 2026 · 5:02

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Greenland's First Oil Rush: The Lost Wells of the Arctic

May 1, 2026 · 4:27

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Greenland's Lost Island: The Fata Morgana of the Arctic

Apr 30, 2026 · 5:21

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Greenland's Greatest Mystery: The Norse Eastern Settlement

Apr 30, 2026 · 6:16

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Greenland's Whale Wars: The Bowhead Boom and Inuit Resilience

Apr 29, 2026 · 6:39

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The Norse Settlements' Final Winter: Greenland's Last Europeans

Apr 29, 2026 · 7:48

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Greenland's Polar Eskimos: The Northernmost People

Apr 28, 2026 · 6:19

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Greenland's Disappeared: The Norse Thief and the Punishment That Shocked a Colony

Apr 28, 2026 · 5:29

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Greenland's Home Rule: The Path to Self-Government

Apr 27, 2026 · 7:08

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Knut Rasmussen and the Fifth Thule Expedition

Apr 27, 2026 · 7:13

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The Greenlandic Language: Survival in a Melting World

Apr 26, 2026 · 7:42

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Greenland's Uranium: The Fight Over Kvanefjeld

Apr 26, 2026 · 7:38

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Greenland's Cold War Chessboard: Thule, B-52s, and Nuclear Secrets

Apr 25, 2026 · 6:20

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Greenland in World War II: Spy Stations and Thule Air Base

Apr 25, 2026 · 6:09

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The Thule Migration and Greenland's Inuit Ancestors

Apr 24, 2026 · 6:19

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Hans Egede and the Mission That Changed Greenland

Apr 24, 2026 · 7:05

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Greenland's Ice: The Viking Mystery and Arctic Power

Apr 23, 2026 · 7:45

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