Greenland's transportation is very unusual in that it has no railways, no inland waterways and virtually no roads between towns. There is a total of 150 km of roads in the entire country; 60 km of the roads are paved. There is only one pair of towns that are connected by a road, Ivittuut and Kangilinnguit. The rest are isolated. Historically the major means of transportation have been by boat round the coasts of the country in summer and by dog sled in winter, particularly in the north and east. There are ports at Kangerluarsoruseq, Kangerlussuaq, Nanortalik, Narsarsuaq, Nuuk (Godthåb) and Sisimiut. Dog sled A dog sled (or dogsled) is a sled pulled by one or more dogs used to travel over ice and through snow. ... Kangerlussuaq is a settlement in west Greenland at the head of a fjord of the same name. ... Narssarssuaq (also spelled Narsarsuaq, Greenlandic for Great Plain) was the principal city of Greenland in the times of Erik the Red. ... Nuuk from the air Nuuk (The Cape) (Danish/Norwegian: GodthÃ¥b, which translates to Good Hope in English) is the capital and largest city of the self-governing Danish territory of Greenland. ...

Following the ceding of operational control of Greenland to the United States by Denmark for the period in which that country was occupied by Germany during World War II, airports were built on the island. The airports were codenamed Bluie West One through to Bluie West Eight on the west of the island and Bluie East One to Bluie East Four on the eastern side. Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that...

The largest of those airports, Bluie West Eight, now renamed Kangerlussuaq, remains the international hub for travel to Greenland, as it is the only airport that has a large enough runway to service jumbo jets. American authorities at one time entertained the idea of building a road from Kangerlussuaq to the second largest airport, in Narsarsuaq, several hundred kilometres to the surface. The idea was abandoned after feasibility studies failed to prove it was possible. The Boeing 747, which is also known as the jumbo jet, is the second largest passenger airliner after the Airbus A380. ...

Greenland now has a total of 18 airstrips, 14 of which are paved. All internal flights are operated by Air Greenland. The name was anglicized in 2002 from the Danish Grønlandsfly. International flights are limited to thrice weekly flights from Copenhagen to Kangerlussuaq and also to Narsarsauq with Air Greenland. Icelandair fly from Reykjavík to Narsarsuaq and offer "day trips to the wilderness" from Reykjavík to Kulusuk on the east coast. The only flight to mainland North America is run by First Air - it operates a weekly flight from Kangerlussuaq to Ottawa via Iqaluit. Air Greenland is the national airline of Greenland, based in Nuuk. ... Copenhagen (Danish: København) is the capital and largest city of Denmark, and the name of the municipality (Danish, kommune) in which it resides. ... Reykjavík See also: Reykjavík, Manitoba in Canada Reykjavík (pronounced in Icelandic) is the capital of Iceland, its largest city and the northernmost capital city of any country. ... Jump to: navigation, search World map showing North America (geographically) A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and... First Air is a privately owned airline that operates mainly in Northern Canada. ... Jump to: navigation, search {{Hide = {{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: {{Unhide = {{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada location. ... Iqaluit (ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ in Inuktitut) is the territorial capital and the largest community of Canadas youngest territory, Nunavut. ...

See also

• Greenland