The SHOCKING Truth About Greenland's Largest City - Nuuk

[@LauraMitchell-d1u]

I watched the whole video and didn't notice what was 'SHOCKING' ????

[@klausadrift7568]

Yeah, another clickbait and the whole video AI generated. Thumbs down from me.

[@hinikuid]

Shocking if you don't know.

[@SigZA]

@@hinikuidShocking is negative. Wonderful, spectacular, amazing. Still very informative.

[@martinwinther6013]

@@hinikuid "Shocking if you dont know" - What excactly is shocking??

[@stephenp7057]

I image the cold is shocking to most people.

[@Hamsun56]

I stopped watching when he said that Nuuk's population is 57, 000. That's the population for all of Greenland. Nuuk has a bit under 20,000

[@hinikuid]

It was my fault, friend, sorry.

[@dennisstrahm4309]

He later said that Nuuk was inhabited by 19,300 people

[@madsjensen65]

Some of the clips are not from Nuuk, but from Illulisat and Aasiaat in the Disco bay. Nuuk is free of ice all year round!

[@hinikuid]

Yes, clips are tailored to the narration.

[@richardshiggins704]

Very interesting . On the "bucket list" .

[@hinikuid]

You should!

[@jameseldridge4185]

Thousands of years? Sorry no. The Norse settlements where in that area 1000 years ago. Then the Inuit migrated into the area as the Norse settlements dissapeared.

[@asbisi]

They like to change history. This is BS.

[@hinikuid]

Thanks..

[@Slim-_-DooDoo]

Various Inuit groups wich means other Inuit groups aswell they have been people in Greenland since 4,500 years ago

[@asbisi]

@@Slim-_-DooDoo But not the present ones, they came in the 1200s - after the Icelanders had lived there for some time.

[@jorgenlarsen775]

@@Slim-_-DooDoo correct. But today's Inuit population is NOT genetically related to those former immigrants. That is not a point of view, but a scientific fact. You can, among other things, read the study "The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic" by the renowned Professor Eske Willerslevs. How inconvenient that truth is to some.

[@Raimo1957]

I'm not the least bit shocked. Even a fool could live on Greenland without a problem. I live in Finland, yesterday it was -37 degrees cold...only.

[@hinikuid]

Saya tidak terkejut, jika ada yang tidak terkejut. Ya, orang bodoh bisa tinggal di mana saja, tetapi dia tetap orang bodoh.

[@gdon2897]

Thank you for making this video! I would like to visit there sometime, in the summer...haha. I'll bet the people are strong and friendly, just like us Canadians🧡 Warm hugs from Western Canada.

[@hinikuid]

It's a wise decision to visit during summer. Hope you have a wonderful trip there.

[@rgj8044]

I was truly SHOCKED by the truth of Nuuk…🤓

[@hinikuid]

Me too..

[@stephenp7057]

Good short little video. Thanks 😊

[@hinikuid]

Glad you liked it! Thank..

[@Anonymous-ld6gg]

The fact that we get free videos on KZbin by HUMAN DOCUMENTARY is truly a gift; keeping education and knowledge alive. 👏🙏🏽🤷

[@hinikuid]

Thank you for the compliment, hopefully this channel will get better.

[@colmanlong1032]

It wasn't found,it always been there.

[@hinikuid]

Oh, you're right my friend.

[@renenygaard5042]

Who discovered Greenland first? In 875, the Viking Gunnbjørn discovered the island and called it Gunnbjørnskær. Some years later, in 982, Erik the Red, who had been declared an outlaw after several murders, fled with his entourage from Iceland and settled the following years at Brattahlid in south-west Greenland. He called the country Greenland

[@hinikuid]

Yes, that's true. But that was for the discovery of Greenland. But for Nuuk, as in this video.

[@julianneheindorf5757]

What a stupid title.. 😤 there is no shocking truth about Nuuk.🙄 It’s the most beautiful capital city in the world. The narration in this video is basically correct, but conveyed in a sensationalized ridiculous manner. Nor is all the footage from Nuuk. Some of it is clearly from other towns and regions in Greenland. The silly focus on our winters, gimme a break. 🙄 Yes, we usually see the first snow in October, but the bulk of the snow usually doesn’t arrive until after Christmas. We always have a White Christmas. 😊 The coldest month is mid-February, not March. Some winters the snow is gone by mid-April, other years it will be later. Most of the year, the temperature ranges between -10° to +10° Celsius. During the coldest month it can drop to -20° but very seldom below that. In summer, usually between 10° and 20° when we have a good summer, lower if the summer is lousy. The hottest I ever experienced was three days in early July when the temperature hit a record of +24° Celsius. That was unbearably hot with sun almost round the clock and little wind to cool things down. The pictures of ships navigating in icy waters are NOT from Nuuk, but from other places in Greenland. The waters around the City of Nuuk and our main harbours don’t freeze in winter. Only around the marina with the pleasure craft, and small fishing boats. An arm of the golf stream comes up along the southwestern coast of Greenland up to around the town of Sisimiut, about 250 kilometers north of Nuuk. The fact that the waters around our peninsula don’t freeze at all during winter is the main reason why Hans Egede, the Danish-Norwegian priest who founded Nuuk in 1728, chose this location as his home. Nuuk is 250 kilometers south of the Arctic circle, so no, the sun is not visible round the clock. But often the lingering rays from the sun will be visible, and it doesn’t get dark at all from about mid-May to early August. I love our summers, with light around the clock and the fact that there isn’t any snow or ice on the roads for an elderly person to navigate. But winters are a fact of life here. We just accept that this is the way things are and get on with it, and a lot of people, especially the young love winters. Sometimes, we’ll have big winter storms, but it’s quite rare that kids get to stay home from school due to a storm. Greenland may seem harsh and bleak to people from other parts of the world, but this is our home and we don’t want it any differently. Fun fact: the population density of Greenland overall is something like 0,14 people per square kilometer, but the population density of Nuuk is 3015 people per square kilometer.

[@hinikuid]

Thanks guys, this is insightful. The title and narrative are made to make people interested, and maybe people don't know much about Greenland. They may only know that Greenland is an uninhabited land of ice, without knowing that it is inhabited by thousands of people, a country with a beautiful capital. Hopefully this video will make them understand more about Greenland especially Nuuk..

[@SirGregoryPageTurner]

Maybe it would be SHOCKING for Trump to watch. I didn't see any MacDonalds. 😉😉

[@julianneheindorf5757]

@@SirGregoryPageTurner we don’t have any US burger chains at all. But we do have local burger joints owned by local people. I take pride in the fact that we have no McDonalds. We don’t need it. Crappy, unhealthy food.

[@SirGregoryPageTurner]

@@julianneheindorf5757 I wish I could say the same for Australia. MacDonalds are everywhere.

[@PeterNGloor]

After viewing this clickbait AI-voiced video I still don't know what should be shocking besides the facts we in Europe already know...

[@solardiver7]

"frozen ice"? Isn't unfrozen ice water?

[@hinikuid]

Isn't ice frozen?

[@KeithWalker-y7h]

What a lovely and fascinating and interesting place but a a bit cold for me. I think I will stay in Ottawa Canada but would love to visit Nuuk.

[@hinikuid]

Sounds great! You should try it my friend.

[@noCOtwo]

I was there for a month 40 years ago and I have to say the place is melting astonishing fast and even at that time their is no way to travel between villages because in the winter it is so warm there is no significant ice to trave,l on with snow mobiles and dog sleds, it gone. Global warming anyone???

[@hinikuid]

Global warming is terrible, it will destroy this world. Deforestation, war, fossil fuel vehicles, etc., they are all the main causes, and must be stopped immediately.

[@philipreiffel5077]

O.k. that's great, but how much for the lot, asking for my friend don, because he can't visit, as he has a criminal record, so I'm acting on his behalf.

[@hinikuid]

It depends on where your friend is from.

[@julianneheindorf5757]

Jameseldrige4185: the information is correct. The earliest finds of Inuit habitation in a Greenland goes back about 4500 years. There have been different groups in Greenland. Independence I and II, the Saqqaq culture, the Dorset people, the Norsemen and the Thule culture people. There is some speculation that here still were people of the Dorsey culture living in northeastern Greenland when the Norsemen settled in the south, but there are no accounts of any meetings between these two groups. The Thule people arrived in Greenland around 1100. They are the ancestors of current day Greenlanders.

[@hinikuid]

Thanks bro, its insightful.

[@clausvoltelen184]

There is Inuit-myths telling about, how the norsemen around Ameralik (inlet near Nuuk) was killed by Inuits. The myth starts telling, that the relations between Inuit and Noremen was friendly in the beginning. And its likely, that they had connections, because the norsemen sailed to the norht hunting, and the Inuit moved to south.

[@clausvoltelen184]

P. S. In the islandic sagas are the Norsemen in Greenland called Greenlanders. And there are some sagas about the greenlanders,

[@jorgenlarsen775]

At that time they were not called Norsemen (or Vikings), but Greenlanders. We don't know what they called themselves, but since they were in Greenland for more than 400 years in relatively isolated circumstances, they probably also developed a culture and language that set them apart from others in Scandinavia. There is much debate about the reason for the disappearance of the Nordic Greenlanders. But the hypothesis of ethnic conflicts is supported by written sources, and the archaeological material does not contradict this hypothesis. Ivar Bárdarson was a Norwegian priest who around 1350 visited the northernmost of the two settlements in Greenland to help them 'against the Inuit'. "When they arrived, they found not a single human-neither Christian nor heathen, only free-roaming livestock." The lifestyle of the Nordic Greenlanders was based on animals (and scattered settlements), so that they could produce milk, wool and young animals ready for slaughter every autumn. For the Nordic Greenlanders, it was therefore completely unthinkable to leave the animals and farms to themselves. When we now know with scientific certainty that today's Inuit Greenlanders are NOT genetically related to the first immigrants (Saqqaq and Dorset people) and something could indicate an ethnic cleansing of the Nordic Greenlanders (who arrived 200 years before today's Inuit Greenlanders) then it therefore paints a picture that is slightly different from the one that today's political elite is trying to paint. If this scenario really IS true (and we don't know), then today's Inuit are not acting as American Indians, but more like European immigrants to the United States. Not quite as uplifting a picture as they want to portray.

[@clausvoltelen184]

@ I think using the old norse word "Grønlænding" or "Grønlænder" about the old scandinavian settlement here on KZbin will only make more confusion, because the same name is used of todays people in Greenland. Hunting and fishing became a growing part of thier livinghood, a god explanation of conflicts with Inuits.

[@larsrosing5033]

One thing wrong here, the fiord around Nuuk never freezes in winter, so no need for icebreakers!

[@learning4ever-g8d]

Is this true or not. Who is making these comments?

[@hinikuid]

thanks, great info.

[@abdelbelmehdi9829]

Tough life for sure. I prefer to stay south!

[@hinikuid]

You're already living in the best place for you, my friend.

[@kellywright540]

Nuuk will be a cool American city! 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸

[@hinikuid]

No, it's not cool..

[@macristo33]

At 6:26 the subtitles captured “New York” instead of “Nuuk!” AI was probably used to generate the subtitles and I feel very smart for outsmarting AI!

[@hinikuid]

Thanks.. you are right. sometimes the AI isn't that great.

[@macristo33]

@@hinikuid LOL! I don’t think anyone else noticed. It is a great video and I enjoyed it-awesome job! Very informative and the landscape is just out of this world!

[@PeterNGloor]

Voice AND subtitles are not natural, a new, stupid trend. It is not pronounced Nook, as AI did, but Nuuuuk.

[@glc0012]

Greenland is not a country. It is an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Denmark. It has a capital and a flag the way a state is the US has those.

[@PeterNGloor]

A bit like the Italian province of South Tyrol.

[@hinikuid]

Aren't they commonwealth? like canada and australia.

[@glc0012]

@ no

[@sandman5211]

Why shocking?

[@hinikuid]

Because not everyone knows.

[@clivescott4]

Pity about the subtitles; Nuuk became Nook at 2:08 and New York at 3:57

[@hinikuid]

My fault, not being careful enough.

[@fredschoemaker7042]

IN REALITY MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO IT BROKE AWAY FROM CANADA

[@hinikuid]

Millions of years ago they were all joined together, and separated millions of years later.

[@PeterNGloor]

What exactly is shocking??? After a visit to the West coast nearby I could not see any difference. Every European knows about the Midnight sun and dark winters.

[@hinikuid]

Yes, but not everyone lives in Europe. Many of those who live in Asia, Europe or America don't know.

[@phillipsher7945]

The truth about Nuuk, shocking or not, is that it’s COLD.

[@hinikuid]

Yes, it's cold. Thank friend.

[@rileyuktv6426]

When’s the Auction? ❤

[@hinikuid]

What auction?

[@pa1954]

video ruined by the music

[@hinikuid]

Maybe, the music is too loud.

[@gezyeoku]

The history of Greenland goes back to ca. 2500 BC, when the first Paleo-Inuits migrated to Greenland tgrough North America. 🇬🇱

[@hinikuid]

Nice info, you're right my friend.

[@jow.6605]

Are there any other types of snow and ice apart from the frozen kind?

[@hinikuid]

Yeah, the melted ones. Or glaciers, maybe.

[@martinwinther6013]

@@hinikuid /smh melted ice and snow is called water..

[@gertkaiser4273]

Quite like the clip at the butcher at 6.15. Someone should make an effort to move to sustainable plant based food. And don’t forget “grow local and sell local

[@hinikuid]

You are right, sustainable plant-based food is one of the solutions to global food security. But it is quite difficult to achieve it here, especially in winter.

[@rev8605]

but do the residents have refrigerators, freezers and ice makers?

[@hinikuid]

They are refrigerators or freezers, so that meat and food do not actually freeze into ice.

[@sisselnilsen4699]

Yotube is a school these days

[@hinikuid]

I agree, we can get a lot of information here.

[@chrishill6276]

Why is every article on you tube now called “SHOCKING”. Nothing shocking here or in any other article.

[@hinikuid]

Shocking to those who don't know.

[@martinwinther6013]

@@hinikuid Youve replied "shocking to those who dont know" -- I still dont know what to look for in terms of shocking

[@GCStalker]

So what's the shocking truth?

[@SirGregoryPageTurner]

No MacDonalds. I'm OK with that, but Trump?

[@hinikuid]

Trump didn't know it was a country. He thought it was just empty land.

[@paulelliott2564]

Why did you have to repeat things?

[@hinikuid]

Sometimes it's to make things clear.

[@millenniummillennium2312]

Why is it that on your channel it is not yet possible to hear the vocal translation in other languages ​​(so not the uncomfortable subtitles that have been there for years) of what you say?😐

[@hinikuid]

That feature is only for large or select channels, and my channel doesn't have it yet.

[@millenniummillennium2312]

@hinikuid I am very sorry😮

[@charleswillcock3235]

Who wrote the script? My guess, a bored 11-year old. in the Northern hemisphere the 21st December is the shortest day light day of the year everywhere not just in Greenland.

[@hinikuid]

The one who wrote it is a 3 year old boy I think. Not everyone has the same knowledge.

[@santamanone]

Actually the largest island in the world is Australia.

[@hinikuid]

But Australia is a continent, right?

[@santamanone]

@ exactly. It’s an island so big it’s its own continent. Whereas Greenland’s part of the North American continent.

[@terryparker1694]

Australia is a continent on its own tectonic plate. Three times larger than Greenland, which is on the North American continental plate.

[@richardshiggins704]

An island continent to be more precise .

[@terryparker1694]

@ Nope. Australia is not an island. Look it up and delete your false post.

[@asbisi]

It is not called "nook". Sounds horrible, It is NUUUUK!

[@hinikuid]

Thanks for correction..

[@juniorbuckle6442]

Been in there a few times offloading fish, beautiful place.

[@hinikuid]

You're lucky you were there, I thought it was a great journey.

[@Nordic_Sky]

"Godthaab" is more accurately pronounced "God-hoeb." Not "Gob-thab" as in this video.

[@hinikuid]

Thanks for correction.

[@DanielPaulson-q9c]

Deceptive Shocking Headline 😮

[@hinikuid]

I don't think so.

[@michaelangelo7511]

Not a good place to be if a tsunami were to hit. Awful close to the sea.

[@hinikuid]

That's right, tsunamis hit Greenland several times due to massive melting of glaciers.

[@martinwinther6013]

@@hinikuid a tsunami is not just any wave. A tsunami occour when tectonic plates that has been pushing up against eachother for centuries suddenly snap, thus releasing all the energy at once all the way down from the bottom of the ocean. It means the entire ocean is being displaced in a matter of seconds, sending a shockwave off in an underwater rippleeffect that moves unimaginable quantities of water in one direction. A tsunami is when the entire oceanfloor is pushing all the water above. - a collapsing glacier or iceberg is nothing like that. its a small squirt in comparison.

[@johnl5316]

The population of Oulu, FINLAND is approximately 216,000 and is farthe north than Nuuk

[@hinikuid]

Yes, But this video about Greenland, and Oulu is not in Greenland

[@bigpeeler]

"frozen snow"

[@hinikuid]

Yes, like that.

[@MICHALMALACHOVSKY]

WOW MEGA VIDEO ONCE AGAIN AND AGAIN !

[@hinikuid]

Glad you liked it! Thanks mate.

[@PeterNGloor]

AI voice??

[@hinikuid]

Yes, mate. Just voice.

[@hgdon-homeiswheretreesare-9239]

Summer in Greenland is winter in Florida (where Donald J Trump's permanant home is), although, as he takes office for second time, in DC, he wants Greenland's home with USA. What say you, don't you want USA? America-Greenland, as it meant to be for the future world.

[@hinikuid]

It seems better not to join America, Greenland is part of the Danish monarchy.

[@Bulldog2833]

Nothing shocking about that

[@hinikuid]

Because you already know.

[@larrysawyer8120]

Canada is closer.

[@hinikuid]

Yes of course, the American continent.

[@freeagent8225]

A Greenland and Canadian island share a land border. Greeting from Australia.😅

[@kellybrown8638]

Seriously? I have reported you to You Tube. There is NOTHING shocking or UNTRUE about Greenland. These people are calm drama free people who care about their neighbors and their community. Most the of population is Native. They learned how to live, and survive, in this climate and have done so for hundreds of years. So please stop CRAP titles designed to get people to clicks on your videos

[@hinikuid]

No problem friend, that's your right. As long as it's not a lie, it doesn't matter.

[@Mostopinionatedmanofalltime]

I wonder if you could get some nuuki in Nuuk? Sorry I just had to.😅

[@hinikuid]

what is nuuki?

[@Mostopinionatedmanofalltime]

@ It’s a slang word. I don’t really think I should elaborate further. 😁 In the States it’s spelled nookie, sounds like Nuuk.

[@arikcagan7123]

Not shocking at all…you did not have to click bait with ( stupid SHOCKING…) I watched another video on Nuuk it was longer and more informative and interesting, with a real person talking and a mild title.

[@hinikuid]

Nice request. But I think you'd be better off doing it yourself. It'll be fun there.

[@alistairbaird3711]

Some of the worst AI gibberish I've heard yet.

[@hinikuid]

Sometimes AI is worst.

[@psource2305]

Currently, James Brown's "Living in America" is topping the charts in Nuuk! 😂 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅

[@hinikuid]

Many American musicians' songs have topped the charts in many countries.

[@FllixRouge]

I Pass 😅

[@hinikuid]

Me too...

[@thomashunter5645]

The population of Nuuk will double when Greenland becomes part of the USA. It will have modern facilities and will be better connected to the world.

[@hinikuid]

Let Nuuk stay as it is. It's better for the world. And why does the US always want to colonize other places? The DNA of colonizers is very much in your blood.

[@thomashunter5645]

Most people of Greenland want to join the USA.

[@colinlavery625]

SHOCKING = CLICK BAIT

[@hinikuid]

Hmm.. Maybe..

[@skinzebrasalive]

Bad AI

[@hinikuid]

Nah.. Maybe..

[@ericd7975]

More AI generated rubbish cookie cutter voice overs. No passion, no interest just words……….

[@hinikuid]

AI is not perfect, but it is helpful.

[@BillyBones4365]

Rubbish

[@hinikuid]

maybe.

[@tigerphid9677]

I would bet that a clear majority of the people of Greenland would like to be more closely associated with the US as a strategic alliance partner, a territory or even a state. And we Americans would like to have them.

[@hinikuid]

For strategic partners maybe yes, but for joining maybe not. It is an independent country, has its own government, similar to Canada.

[@hvgoldart]

Doubtful

[@rock3times]

They lived under Denmark...Socially, they are too leftist to tolerate capitalist America..However,they keenly aware they can rely on America for economic development and defense once they secede from Denmark .. A compact of free association like we have with Palau, FSM and Marshall Islands is ideal and attractive to them ..

[@laryco]

Just don’t like the way the topic is being bandied about…too callous concerning here and other places

[@stewartelder7576]

Why do you bet on this? Have you contacted any Greenlanders to ask them what they want?

[@OhMy1863]

The most SHOCKING is that you think it's so "SHOCKING".. 🤣

[@hinikuid]

Yes, like that

[@Gogalen789]

Todays journalists tend to rely on sensationalism quite a bit esp when it comes to news article titles. Don't have to be Einstein to figure that one out 🥽

[@hinikuid]

To attract people, you need that, as long as the content is not a hoax, it doesn't really matter.