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Majestic landscapes at Pulpit Rock.

Ranked and rated: Which Scandinavian country is the best destination?

Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland or Greenland? We compare the contenders across five categories to help you decide which to visit.

  • by Sarah Marshall
International flights currently have to land at Kangerlussuaq (pictured), a former US military base.

New airport makes one of the world’s most incredible places more accessible

Until now, most international flights to Greenland have landed in Kangerlussuaq, a former US military base.

  • by Julietta Jameson

Five exciting new cruise routes will take you to truly unusual places

From ice-encrusted mountains to jungle-clad volcanoes, glamorous Asian cities to the remotest settlements, here are five of the most tempting new cruise routes.

  • by Brian Johnston
We’re far enough north in the summer that the sun never sets.

A place where the sun never sets (though you still might not see it)

Tourism is still a rarity when exploring this part of the Arctic.

  • by Jamie Lafferty
Uummannaq on Greenland’s vast and vastly unexplored coast.

Move over Iceland: It just got easier to visit this hugely underrated island

Now you can explore the unique wonders and heritage of Greenland on an upgraded cargo ferry with the launch of three locally driven itineraries.

  • by Julietta Jameson
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Greenland feels so far away from anywhere else, yet offers so much.

Greenland travel guide: The island to end all islands

In Greenland, the unknown is part of the attraction, whichever regions you visit.

  • by Tatyana Leonov
Northeast Greenland National Park, the world's largest and least visited national park.

Cruising to Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland, and the world's least-visited national park

'More people have climbed Everest than have been in this national park.'

  • by Andrew Bain
Greenland is one of the world's most sparsely inhabited places, and the last major landmass to be settled by humans. Most of it is buried under ice. The rest is rock and tundra, a green-grey world of hard edges and great silences.

Greenland cruise in the Arctic: The only sensible way to see the world's biggest island

You travel a long way to see the emptiness of Greenland, but however you try to describe it afterwards sounds feeble.

  • by Brian Johnston
Walruses hauled ashore on the Poolepynten peninsula on Prins Karls Forland island in the Svalbard archipelago.

Cruising Svalbard and Greenland: Ordinary people can now enjoy this astonishing place

An expedition cruise is the only viable way to visit the remote Arctic, but the adventure no longer means frostbite and a diet of seal blubber.

  • by Brian Johnston

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/topic/greenland-ade