37 Amazing Vintage Photos of Greenland From Between the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and later Denmark) for more than a millennium.

Greenland is, in area, the world’s largest island, over three-quarters of which is covered by the only contemporary ice sheet outside of Antarctica. Here’s a collection of some of amazing vintage photographs of Greenland in the late 19th to early 20th centuries taken by Th. N. Krabbe, via National Museum of Denmark.

(Photos by Th. N. Krabbe, via National Museum of Denmark)