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All aboard the Sarfaq Ittuk, Greenland’s last ferry
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People watching loved ones board the Sarfaq Ittuk at the port in Nuuk, Greenland, in March. The vital and iconic coastal ferry keeps small west coast communities connected.
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GREENLAND – It is a Friday night and the port in the capital Nuuk is a hive of activity. Passengers loaded down with heavy bags hurry aboard a rusty red and white ship – Greenland’s last ferry.
Among them are an ethnologist and a few Danish tourists, but most are Greenlanders from the 74 villages and settlements that dot the west coast, a thin strip of land squeezed between the ice sheet and the open sea just south of the Arctic Ocean.
