Living in Ittoqqortoormiit | How 500 People Live in Greenland's Loneliest Town | 4K Documentary

How far would you have to travel to reach a town where the sea itself locks the door behind you for eight months of the year? On the east coast of Greenland, at the mouth of the largest fjord system on the surface of the planet, between three and four hundred people live further from any other town than almost anyone else on Earth. The name means, roughly, "the people of the big houses". But before there was a town here there was only a decision, and it was made in Copenhagen and Oslo rather than in the Arctic. In 1925 a Danish explorer was handed an assignment, and around eighty Inuit settlers were moved north to this stretch of coastline to found a settlement whose original purpose had very little to do with them. Subscribe for more places most people will never see. ---------------------------------------- IMAGES: Wikimedia Commons, NARA, U.S. Marine Corps, National Park Service Akigka (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Algkalv (talk) (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Amy Balkin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Andy Brunner andy_brunner (CC0) · anttilipponen (CC BY 2.0) · barentz (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Berland at English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Buiobuione (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Christine Zenino from Chicago, US (CC BY 2.0) · Christoph Strässler (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Constantine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · DanNav (CC BY 3.0) · Dave Stanley (CC BY 3.0) · Drew Avery (CC BY 2.0) · Emanuel A. Petersen (Public domain) · Emanuel Petersen (Public domain) · European Space Agency, Monja Šebela, Sentinel-2 (CC BY 2.0) · Hannes Grobe (CC BY-SA 2.5) · Hannes Grobe 20:04, 16 December 2007 (UTC) (CC BY-SA 2.5) · Hannes Grobe 20:10, 16 December 2007 (UTC) (CC BY-SA 2.5) · Hannes Grobe 20:19, 16 December 2007 (UTC) (CC BY-SA 2.5) · Hannes Grobe 20:20, 16 December 2007 (UTC) (CC BY-SA 2.5) · Hannes Grobe 20:20, 16 December 2010 (UTC) (CC BY-SA 2.5) · Hannes Grobe 20:59, 26 October 2007 (UTC) (CC BY-SA 2.5) · Hannes Grobe), AWI (CC BY-SA 2.5) · Hannes Grobe, Alfred Wegener Institute (CC BY-SA 2.5) · Hannes Grobe, AWI (CC BY-SA 2.5) · Hannes Grobe,Inkey (CC BY-SA 2.5) · Hannes Grobe/AWI (CC BY 3.0 / CC BY-SA 2.5) · Helene Brochmann (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Holger Damgaard, (24.7.1870-15.1.1945) (Public domain) · Iben Koldtoft (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Jerzy Strzelecki (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Jerzystrzelecki (CC BY 3.0) · kaet44 (CC BY 2.0) · Kasper Cordt Olsen (CC BY 2.5) · Kerry Raymond (CC BY 4.0) · Kim Hansen (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Lysogeny (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Markus Trienke (CC BY-SA 2.0) · MillettDavid (CC BY-SA 4.0) · NASA (Public domain) · NASA / Jim Yungel (Public domain) · Richard N Horne (CC BY 4.0) · Rita Willaert from 9890 Gavere, Belgium (CC BY 2.0) · Rob Oo (CC BY 2.0) · Rob Oo from NL (CC BY 2.0) · Sentinel Hub (CC BY 2.0) · Slaunger, edited by Thegreenj (CC BY-SA 3.0) · United States Army Air Force (Public domain) · Unknown authorUnknown author (Public domain) · Unknown photographer (Public domain) · Vadeve (talk) 18:05, 27 November 2012 (UTC) (Public domain) · Ville Miettinen (CC BY 2.0) Licenses: creativecommons.org/licenses