The Nanortalik-Kap Farvel area in southernmost Greenland

Birds eye view
from a helicopter

A
high-situated lake (N5) containing a complete Holocene record

Sling load
with coring equipment on one of the mountain lakes

The first secure pre-Holocene lacustrine record (N14) found in Greenland in April 1999 on the
island of Angissoq. The lowermost 8 cm are marine, after which the lake became isolated at
ca 13,800 cal yr BP.The sediments on the photo cover the time span between
ca 14,000-11,000 cal yr BP.

A “late-glacial” landscape in
front of the Greenland Ice Sheet

A calving ice front on Greenland