HX Expeditions’ ship MS Fridtjof Nansen can move at a fair rate of knots (15, to be precise) but, even though we’d been powering along Greenland’s west coast for 40 hours since leaving capital Nuuk, there had been few signs of human habitation.
The largest island in the world is a truly wild place. Mountains, however, were in abundance and, when we approached the town of Ilulissat so too were icebergs. These floating giants had been borne by the Ilulissat Icefjord which produces three per cent of the world’s icebergs.
