Geography What would it be like to live in the Arctic? Where do you think we are? Take a moment to jot down some questions on some scrap paper. We are in Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland It has a population was 345 as of 2020 and has been described as one of the most remote (difficult to get to) places on earth. https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/countries/green land/ The name "Ittoqqortoormiit" means "Big-House Dwellers" in the Eastern Greenlandic language. The region is known for its wildlife, including polar bears, muskoxen, and seals. Houses The old Inuit houses were simple and easy to built as the weather and seasons changed. For 4,000 years the Inuit lived in turf huts, tents and occasionally in igloos. Would you like to For building materials, the Inuit people used live in one of driftwood, bones and furs from animals that had these houses? been hunted or captured. An explorers arrival in Greenland in 1721, created a new style of home. Wooden houses were sent up from Scandinavia as timber kits (a little like an IKEA flat pack!). The colourful tradition of the characteristic, brightly coloured houses began here. The colours were practical and indicated the function of the building: Commercial houses were red; hospitals were yellow; police stations were black; the telephone company was green and fish factories were blue. While Ittoqqortoormiit has electricity and central heating, residents still have to hunt for food. In their spare time, they go dog sledding along the Food snowy ravines and later feed their animals with seals harpooned from the icy rocks. But they eat food they have hunted on the tundra or in the sea -- whelk, reindeer and Arctic char -- for dinner each night and dress in polar bear fur coats and seal skin gloves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCPhh9nYu9U https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/ittoqqortoor miit-greenland-remote-hotel/index.html Arctic Char Greenland has an Arctic Weather climate with average temperatures that do not exceed 10° C (50° F) in the warmest summer months. The air quality in Greenland is among the best in the world due to the country’s geographical position to the high north. The temperature in Greenland is highly dependent on where you are and which time of the year you visit the country. It is warmest in September and coldest in March. They have cool Summers and cold Winters. Human Geography While the people of Ittoqqortoormiit are out hunting, this is also the time when the polar bears emerge from Greenland National Park, the biggest reserve on Earth and a freezing wilderness that hits minus 60 Celsius in winter. Although the effects of climate change are already making their mark. But as the ice they hunt on disappears, the animals are being forced to start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-1weFCiYBA scavenging. Using the internet Weather and the information Food on these slides – gather some of your favourite facts on this spider diagram. Ittoqqortoormiit, Houses/Jobs Greenland Human Geography What do you think? Would you like to live in Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland? Why? I would definitely like to live in a fun coloured house, but I’m not too sure about hunting for my own food – I’m a vegetarian!.