NUUK

nook, formerly Godthåbgôtˈhôp, town (1996 pop. 12,882), Nuuk dist., W Greenland, on the Godthåbfjord. The largest town and capital of Greenland, it is the seat of the national council and of the supreme court, and it has foreign consulates. Nuuk also has radio stations and newspapers, is a fishing center, and has oil and liquid gas storage facilities. An airfield was built there in the late 1970s. The town was founded in 1721 by Hans Egede, a Norwegian missionary. The Godthåbfjord region has fine pastures and supports reindeer herds. At the head of the fjord are the remains of Vesterbygd, a 10th-century Norse settlement.

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books on: Nuuk  - 40 results

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Yearbook of International Environmental Law - Vol. 4
Book by Günther Handl, Daniel Bodansky, Lothar Gundling, Linda A. Malone, Philippe Sands, Craig M. Scott; Clarendon Press, 1994
Subjects: Environmental Law, International--Periodicals
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Protecting the Polar Marine Environment: Law and Policy for Pollution Prevention
Book by Davor Vidas; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Marine Pollution--Law And Legislation--Polar Regions, Marine Resources Conservation--Law And Legislation--Polar Regions
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Sinews of Survival: The Living Legacy of Inuit Clothing
Book by Betty Kobayashi Issenman; University of British Columbia Press, 1997
Subjects: Eskimos--Costume, Inuit--Costume
...of the Greenland National Museum at Nuuk. An analysis of the skin clothing found...drawings from Greenland National Museum, Nuuk . Left and below Womans sealskin jacket...drawings from Greenland National Museum, Nuuk . Opposite above Womans sealskin housepants...
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Negotiating the Arctic: The Construction of an International Region
Book by E. C.H. Keskitalo; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Arctic Regions--History, Arctic Regions--International Status, Arctic Regions--Research--International Cooperation
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Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing
Book by Merete Demant Jakobsen; Berghahn Books, 1999
Subjects: Greenland--Religion, New Age Movement--Greenland, Shamanism--Greenland
...ostgronlandsk kunstner, Atuakkiorfik, Nuuk . The helping spirit ajumaaq enters during...En OstgrOnlandsk kunstner, Atuakkiorfik, Nuuk . Tupilak being harpooned by a...En OstgrOnlandsk kunstner, Atuakkiorfik, Nuuk . Female tupilak from Ammassalik, east...
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Proto-Micronesian Reconstructions-I
Journal article by Byron W. Bender, Ward H. Goodenough, Frederick H. Jackson, Jeffrey C. Marck, Kenneth L. Rehg, Ho-Min Sohn, Stephen Trussel, Judith W. Wang; Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 42, 2003
Subjects: Austronesian languages--Comparative method, Austronesian languages--History, Micronesia (Region)--History, Micronesia (Region)--Social aspects
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Problematizing Impairment: Cultural Competence in the Carolines
Journal article by Mac Marshall; Ethnology, Vol. 35, 1996
Subjects: Caroline Islands--Social aspects, Disability--Research, Disabled persons--Social aspects, Social isolation--Caroline Islands
...body, the area above the navel which includes the body center (nuuk) and the breast (wuupw) is called the neetip. It is in this area...fear, coolness, warmth, and so on. Within the body center (nuuk) and below the navel (epinuank sic), one finds the saa, where...
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Cancer in Beluga from the St. Lawrence Estuary
Journal article by Mike O. Hammill, Veronique Lesage, Michael C.S. Kingsley; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 111, 2003
...Kingsley Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland REFERENCES...
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Lead Sources in Human Diet in Greenland
Journal article by Peter Bjerregaard, Poul Johansen, Gert Mulvad, Henning Sloth Pedersen, Jens C. Hansen; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 112, 2004
...Piniarneq 2001. Jagtinformation og Fangstregistrering in Danish, Nuuk:Greenland Home Rule Government. Asmund G, Cleemann M. 2000...Institute, Roskilde, Denmark; (3) Primary Health Care Center, Nuuk, Greenland; (4) Centre for Arctic Environmental Medicine, University...
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Current Developments
Journal article by Rudolf Bernhardt, David D. Caron, Samuel M. Witten, Louise Doswald-Beck, George Galdorisi, Peter H. F. Bekker, AsbjØ Rn Eide, Allan Rosas, Theodor Meron; American Journal of International Law, Vol. 89, 1995
Subjects: International Relations--Periodicals
...in recent years with respect to whales in the International Whaling Commission." 63 At the fifth such conference, held in Nuuk, Greenland, on April 9, 1992, representatives of the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland and Norway signed the Agreement...
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The Big Thaw: To Much of the World, Greenland Is an Obscure Island Sheathed in Ice, a Giant White Blotch on the Map. Now, a Warming Climate Is Freeing Up the Country's Resources in Previously Frozen Expanses of Land and Sea, and Greenlanders Are Bestirring Themselves to Seek Independence from Denmark
Magazine article by Joshua Kucera; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 32, Autumn 2008
Subjects: Autonomy, Autonomy (Political science), Environmental management--Political aspects, Environmental protection--Political aspects, Global warming, Greenland--Natural resources, Greenland--Political aspects
...from Denmark. by Joshua Kucera NUUK, GREENLAND, IS A POKY LITTLE PLACE. Its...houses against a dramatic mountain backdrop, Nuuk looks like a western ski resort with some...changes, a new, Inuit name for the capital, Nuuk (pronounced "nuke"), formerly known by...
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Greenland: A Dream at the Top of the World: Affluence, Modernity, Tolerance, and Civil Unions: Forget Everything You've Ever Thought about Remote, Icy Greenland. the World's Largest Island Is at the Forefront of the 21st Century in More Ways Than One
Magazine article by Matthew Link; The Advocate, August 14, 2007
Subjects: Celebrities--Interviews, Olsen, Erik--Interviews
...accepted." I was sitting in an upscale bar in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, chatting over...sat in, as was the modern city life of Nuuk outside, as was the fact that LGBT parties...tour guide to the top two officials at Nuuk Tourism, who happen to be an out gay man...
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In Conversation
Magazine article by Mark Rowe; Geographical, Vol. 80, February 2008
Subjects: Lynge, Aqqaluk, Presidents (Organizations)
In Conversation. by Mark Rowe Aqqaluk Lynge, 60, the president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, which is based in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. A former social worker and radio broadcaster, Lynge has held the post of president for ten years...
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What Lies Beneath: Some Oil Companies Boast about Their Commitment to Fighting Global Warming. but as the Arctic Heats Up, These Same Companies Are Racing to Drill in Newly Melted Waters. the Rush to Exploit the Melting Ice Cap Is On
Magazine article by Joshua Kurlantzick; The American Prospect, Vol. 17, November 2006
Subjects: Global warming--Control, Global warming--International aspects, Petroleum industry--Services
...Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum, he operates out of an office in Nuuk, capital of Greenland, a semiautonomous region of Denmark with...landmass that covers more than 800,000 square miles. In summer, Nuuk resembles a small Midwestern suburb, its low-lying ranch-style...
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Global Warming Coverage Melts Down
Magazine article by Patrick J. Michaels; World and I, Vol. 16, September 2001
Subjects: Climatic changes--Research, Greenhouse gases--Research, Hansen, James V.--Testimony, Journalism--Analysis, Research--Analysis
...have prompted a journalistic look at data from the region where the ice is growing, such as around Nuuk in southwestern Greenland (fig. 3). The Nuuk record is one of the premier histories in the world, with its pristine environment insensitive to...
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Global Warming Impacting Greenlanders' Daily Lives
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 10, 2009
Subjects: Air pollution, Global warming
...Impacting Greenlanders Daily Lives. NUUK, July 9, 2009 (AFP) - From his trawler that motors along the Nuuk fjord, fisherman Johannes Heilmann has watched...themselves.Its very visible in the ArcticIn Nuuk, residents like Nana Pedersen and Sofus...
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Ice Is a Hot Seller, Even in Greenland: Entrepreneur Does Brisk Business Selling Cubes to Eskimos
Newspaper article by Lucy Jones; The Washington Times, October 9, 1999
Subjects: Greenland, Ice Cap Rocks
...business selling cubes to Eskimos by Lucy Jones NUUK, Greenland - Next, theyll be selling sand to the Bedouins...entirely covered by its own icecap. Last year, Mr. Rasmussens Nuuk, Greenland-based company, Ice Cap Rocks, sold more than 6 1/2...
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Cruise News
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), April 23, 2006
Subjects: Cruise lines
...with its giant icebergs and whales. The 18-night trip leaves Harwich on August 9. Ports of call include Torshavn, Reykjavik, Nuuk, Ilulissat, Sisimiut, Narsarsuaq and Cobh. The price includes all meals, lectures and entertainment. Book through Voyages of...
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Enterprise: John Can Drink to Arctic Contract
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 8, 2004
...entrepreneur, who has run John White Cabinetmakers since 1969, will also provide new interiors for two pubs in Greenlands capital, Nuuk - one of which will house the microbrewery, tantalising drinkers behind a glass screen. Tightly clad in thermal clothing and...
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Viewpoint: FEEDBACK
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 31, 2005
...Sometimes the fact that places might have more than one name adds to the confusion. The Greenlandic capital known locally as Nuuk goes by the name of Godthaab in Denmark, which has nominal imperialistic control over the country. Munchen, on the other hand...
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encyclopedia articles on: Nuuk  - 3 results

 
 
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Nuuk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NUUK nook, formerly Godthab got hop, town (1996 pop. 12,882), Nuuk dist., W Greenland, on the Godthabfjord. The largest town...and of the supreme court, and it has foreign consulates. Nuuk also has radio stations and newspapers, is a fishing center...
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GodthÅb
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GODTHAB Greenland: see Nuuk . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Greenland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ocean in the south; and Davis Strait and Baffin Bay in the west, which separate it from Baffin Island, Canada. The capital is Nuuk (formerly Godthab). Land and People Greenland is 1,659 mi (2,670 km) long from Cape Farewell (lat. 59 46N) to Cape Morris...


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