Qaqortok & Hvasley Island

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Hvasley Island, also known as Whale Iland, has the best-preserved ruins of a Norse settlement in Greenland. Viking descendants arrived here around 1000 AD and established a small farming community. Diets were supplemented with hunting whale, seals, walrus and Polar bear to the East and South. The settlement was abandoned around 1450 AD for unknown reasons.

Greenland 00479 8182022 Along the Way Photographs Eileen Jensen George Jensen Hvasley