Here is the main website for information about the upcoming AWG in Nuuk, Greenland. Please visit often to keep up with the excitement of the games.
Arctic winter games: Main
Fun facts about Nuuk
- Did you know that Nuuk is 5 hrs ahead of Whitehorse ! Keep that in mind during the Games
- The Currency in Greenland is the Danish Krone (DKK) and the exchange rate is currently at the following rate 4.75 DKK for 1 Canadian Dollar.
- Nuuk means 'the headland" and is located on the edge of a large peninsula at the mouth of a giant fjord system
- Nuuk is the smallest capital city in the world with only 17,000 inhabitant
- Greenlanders are called Kalaalit (they do not like to be called Eskimos)
- Greenland is the land area size of Mexico but it has no road or railway system to connect its communities. Travelling in Greenland is by plane, helicopter, boats or dogsled.
- In 1946, the USA wanted to buy Greenland from Denmark but the European kingdom refused to sell the island.
- Greenland is the world largest island
- The official language of Greenland is Kalaallisut (Greenlandic)…and it is one of the most difficult language to learn.
To get you started, here are a couple of useful words to learn if you are going to Greenland
- Hello = Kutaa
- Thank you = Qujanaq
- Yes - Suu
- No = Naa
- Where is the toilet = Anartarfik sumippa
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