Tobias Damgaard-Petersen, 29, Member of the Royal Danish military unit Sirius Patruljen. Sirius Patruljen is based in Daneborg and consists of five teams of two men who on dogsleds patrol an area about the size of Brazil. The members of this elite unit must pass a highly demanding mental examine and once stationed they will stay non-stop for 26 month.
The cemetery in the abandon village of Dundas. An entire Inuit community was forcibly relocated from here when the American Thule Air Base was built in the 1950s. Later a B-52-plane carrying atomic bombs crashed nearby, and according to local Inuits, contaminated the environment and wild life.
Sebastian Kolind, 24, Member of the Royal Danish military unit Sirius Patruljen. Sirius Patruljen is based in Daneborg and consists of five teams of two men who on dogsleds patrol an area about the size of Brazil. The members of this elite unit must pass a highly demanding mental examine and once stationed they will stay non-stop for 26 month.
Ice in the sea at Disko Bay.
Base commander at the American Thule Air Base Colonel Joseph L. Prue. Built during the cold war where 10,000 men where stationed here. The shortest way from the US to the industrial zones of the Soviet Union's went over the North Pole, and Thule lying halfway, was therefore central to America's military strategy. Today, the base only has 550 employees.
A house covered by snow in Mestersvig.
The hand of Ilannguaq Umaaq, a 54-year old Inuit hunter photographed in the abandon village of Dundas, where an entire Inuit community was forcibly relocated when the American Thule Air Base was build in the 1950s. Later a B-52-plane carrying atomic bombs crashed nearby, and according to local Inuits, contaminated the environment and wild life.
A dogsled named Aloha at Mestersvig.
Marcus Olling Andersen, 22, Member of the Danish military unit Sirius Patruljen. Sirius Patruljen is based in Daneborg and consists of five teams of two men who on dogsleds patrol an area about the size of Brazil. The members of this elite unit must pass a highly demanding mental examine and once stationed they will stay non-stop for 26 month.
Mountains in North West Greenland.
Torben Godskesen, 31, Station leader at Mestervig. Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark and Mestervig is one of five Danish stations in Greenland. The station is operated by just two people who stays here a full year only with the company of each other.
A weather station South of Daneborg.
Global warming has made the cold North a hot potato. World powers are fighting for the rights to the Arctic subsoil, new shipping routes and strategic military bases, while multinational companies are on the look for undiscovered natural resources. This feature takes you to the most advanced outpost in Greenland: from the isolated Mestersvig on the east coast, the American Thule Base on the west coast to Daneborg where the Sirius Patrol is trying to keep sovereignty over a enormous and more and more desired piece of land.
