Home Greenland: like the beginning of the world Enormous icebergs detached from the Greenland ice sheet, which covers almost the entire country, are waiting in Disko Bay to head out into the open sea. One of them, a gigantic mountain that is more patient than the others, has been there for almost 4,000 years.

Enormous icebergs detached from the Greenland ice sheet, which covers almost the entire country, are waiting in Disko Bay to head out into the open sea. One of them, a gigantic mountain that is more patient than the others, has been there for almost 4,000 years.

Since the Ilulisat Fjord was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, tourism has experienced strong growth.
In 1721, the pastor Hans Egede set off to evangelise the local populations on behalf of the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway. Gradually, the Inuit moved from shamanism to Lutheranism (here, the Ilulisat church, dating from the end of the 18th century).