Students from a college playing football during a winter snow storm.

Lights illuminate the windows of a house during a winter snow flurry.

Valderman, a single man who lives alone, lifts weights in a bid to stay fit.

A whale skeleton near Assiat village.

Youths smoking cigarettes.

Youths smoking cigarettes.

A boy smoking a cigarette.

Young people dancing on a Saturday night at a youth club.

A child sleeps in a well covered buggy outside a house.

A fisherman feeds fish to his sledge dogs (huskies). For the dogs to survive outside in Greenland's low temperatures it is vital that they are properly fed. Which, in their case, is almost exclusively...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

A pack of dogs pull a sledge over the winter ice sea in Disko Bay. Over the past 30 years, the annual average of Artic sea-ice extent has decreased by about 8%, or nearly one million square kilometres...

Fishing runabouts trapped in the winter ice at Ilulissat port. From December until May the port is frozen and fishing with boats is not possible.

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

An aerial view of the snow capped peaks that form the Greenland ice sheet.

Sledge dogs (Huskies), leashed separately to prevent them fighting each other, wait in the snow for their next trip or meal. There are about 1000 dogs in Ilulissat but that is obly about a third of th...

A fisherman returns from a trip onto to the frozen sea ice in Disko Bay dragging a catch of halibut behind him. The trawlers in the background will be trapped in the winter ice until the spring thaw.

The Zion Church, built in the late 18th century, for the evangelical Lutheran population (the predominant religion of the non-inuit population). At the tt was the largest man-made structure in Greenla...

Modern igloos in Artic Hotel. Ilulissat is the Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) word for Iceberg. With a population of 4,541 as of 2013, it is the third-largest settlement in Greenland, after Nuuk and S...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay towrds Qequertasuaq island. The glacier passes through the Ilulissat Icefjord and annually it drains about 6.5...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), float in Disko Bay. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and is responsible for about 10% of all Green...

Surine Petersen, a teacher of shamanic dance, gives a performance in the Oqaatsu settlement where she conserves old Inuit storytelling traditions that she learnt from her father.

An old photograph of an Inuit man playing an instrument during a ceremony around 1920.

An old photograph of an Inuit couple standing outside a teepee.

An old photograph of a group of Inuit at a ceremony from around 1920.

Fishermen and their trawlers in the harbour.

Icebergs calved from the Jakobshavn glacier melting in Disko Bay. Greenland's melting icesheets and glaciers are likely to add significantly to the world's rising sea levels.

Sledge dogs (Huskies), leashed separately to prevent them fighting each other, wait to be fed outside the homes of their fishermen owners. For the dogs to survive outside in Greenland's low temperatu...

Icebergs calved from the Jakobshavn glacier melting in Disko Bay. Greenland's melting icesheets and glaciers are likely to add significantly to the world's rising sea levels.

A wooden stairway leads up a hillside to an area of residential homes.

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Seagulls fighting for scraps disgarded by fishermen.

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating towards Disko Bay through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and is...

The east coast of Greenland, which falls within the Artic Polar Circle, in June as the ice sea begins to melt. It has also been suggested that by 2050 climate change will result in the Arctic Sea bein...

The west coast of Greenland, which falls within the Artic Polar Circle, in summer as the ice sea continues its annual melt. The increasing rate of melt from the Greenland ice sheet, which has a signif...

Fishermen catching halibut manouvre their boats among the icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay. The glacier travels through the Ilulissat Icefjord...

Crosses marking graves in a cemetery in Ilulissat. The decrease in Greenland's population is due to emigration, as natural growth is positive. On 1 July 2013, there were 56,483 inhabitant living in Gr...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), float in Disko Bay during a summer storm. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and is responsible for...

Painted wood clad fishermen's houses in Qeqertasuaq village.

Sledge dogs (huskies), leashed separately to prevent them fighting each other, outside houses in a fishing settlement.

An old photograph of a group of Inuit outside their houses which were made of stone with a mud covering and insulated with grass.

A wooden stairway leads from the sea shore near the Zion Church which was built in the late 18th century for the evangelical Lutheran population (the predominant religion of the non-Inuit population).

Crosses marking graves in a cemetery in Ilulissat.

Icebergs calved from the Jakobshavn glacier melting in Disko Bay. Greenland's melting icesheets and glaciers are likely to add significantly to the world's rising sea levels.

Lichens and other hardy plants cling to the rocks on in the region known locally as the 'Grand Canyon of the Arctic'.

Assiat village in winter during snow storm.

Sea ice off the east coast of Greenland. Over the past 30 years, the annual average of Artic sea-ice extent has decreased by about 8%, or nearly one million square kilometres, an area larger than all...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating towards Disko Bay through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and is...

Ole Christiansen, a fisherman of Danish descent, smoking a pipe. In the background sea ice is relected in a window. Christiansen says that it has become increasingly dangerous to venture onto the sea...

A man rests in comfort in his house. The living standards for native people in Greenland has changed completely over the last half century. The houses are warm and comfortable. Most of the native popu...

A huge crack cleaves the sea ice of Disko Bay into huge floating islands of ice. Locals claim that such an occurrence is a recent phenomenon which wasn't seen 20 years ago. It has also been suggested...

Ilulissat is the Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) word for Iceberg. With a population of 4,541 as of 2013, it is the third-largest settlement in Greenland, after Nuuk and Sisimiut. The nearby Ilulissat...

Icebergs floating towards Disko Bay from the Ilulissat Icefjord. Increasing temperatures have led to greater numbers of icebergs in summertime as more ice blocks calve off the main flow. The glacier i...

Fishermen in Ilulissat.

The Greenland ice sheet the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long in a north-south direction, and its greatest w...

A car buried by a winter snow fall beside a pink building.

The Greenland ice sheet the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long in a north-south direction, and its greatest w...

The Greenland ice sheet the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long in a north-south direction, and its greatest w...

Huge cracks cleave the sea ice of Disko Bay into huge floating islands. Locals claim that this breaking up of the winter ice is a recent phenomenon which wasn't seen 20 years ago. It has also been sug...

Huge cracks cleave the sea ice of Disko Bay into huge floating islands. Locals claim that this breaking up of the winter ice is a recent phenomenon which wasn't seen 20 years ago. It has also been sug...

A huge crack cleaves the sea ice of Disko Bay into huge floating islands of ice. Locals claim that such an occurrence is a recent phenomenon which wasn't seen 20 years ago. It has also been suggested...

A man training his dogs on the sea ice for a forthcoming dog sledding competition, Greenland's national sport. On this day, even in the frozen winter, they cannot go far out onto the frozen sea becaus...

A pack of dogs pulls a fisherman and gis sledge as he heads out into Disko Bay. On this day, even in the frozen winter, they cannot go far out onto the frozen sea because the ice's thickness is not su...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating towards Disko Bay through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and is...

The Zion Church, built in the late 18th century, for the evangelical Lutheran population (the predominant religion of the non-inuit population). At the tt was the largest man-made structure in Greenla...

Brightly coloured houses in Ilulissat. The typical Greenland home is perfectly suited for winter with good insulation and steeply pitched roofs to allow snow to slide.

A sign points to various places around the world at Kangerlussuaq, Greenland's international airport which is sited in the interior of the west coast to minimise foggy weather.

Inuit mothers and children in a church during a baptism ceremony.

A young fisherman.

Youths socialise outside residential houses.

The Northern Lights over a radar station in Assiat, a village in the Arctic Circle.

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating in Disko Bay after travelling through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice...

Huge cracks cleave the sea ice of Disko Bay into huge floating islands. Locals claim that this breaking up of the winter ice is a recent phenomenon which wasn't seen 20 years ago. It has also been sug...

Workers leave Ilulissat's cemetery after preparing a tomb for a funeral.

Reindeer horns from a hunted animal attached to a house buried into the snow.

Sledge dogs (Huskies), leashed separately to prevent them fighting each other, lie curled up in the snow. There are about 2000 dogs in Ilulissat but that is only about a third of the number that there...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating towards Disko Bay through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and is...

Icebergs, broken off from the Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq), floating towards Disko Bay through the Ilulissat Icefjord. Annually, the glacier drains about 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet. Incre...

An oil worker looks on as a helicopter delivers crews and equipment for building a basecamp in roadless wilderness near the Arctic Circle as part of an Occidental Petroleum joint venture with the Russ...

Border guards of the soon to be defunct USSR patrolling along Provideniya Bay and the Bering Sea coast in the arctic Chukotka region. This is the closest Russian border to the United States.

Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise's deckhand and diver Alessandro Montanari returns to the surface after freediving to gather footage of the world's largest seagrass meadow on the Saya de Malha bank in...

Crew and campaigners watch a pod of spinner dolphins from the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise during a sightings survey of the Saya de Malha Bank.

Dan Jones and climate activist Shaama Sandooyea watch a pod of spinner dolphins from the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise during a sightings survey of the Saya de Malha Bank.

Deckhand Yei Hsuan Huang at work in the technical area of the Arctic Sunrise near the Seychelles.

An ROV is launched from the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise over the Saya de Malha Bank in the Indian Ocean.