In the afternoon, we visited Grønlands Naturinstitut (Greenland Institute of Natural Resources). Britta and Ane drove us to the Institute, as it was rather far away from downtown.

While waiting for the rest of the group to arrive, climbing up the hill and finding this seal statue was the perfect thing to do.

Listening to a presentation about Naturinstitut, the work done there and its architecture.

The institute consists of several buildings in the same shape, shaped and aligned to offer minimum resistance to the wind. One of the buildings is pictured to the right.

This fossil of a large shell was hanging on one of the walls inside Naturinstitut. The sign placed next to it read the following:

		Inoceramus steenstrupi
	"The largest bivalve in the world A shell of a bivalve mollusc that was found in 1952 in the valley Qilakitsoq on the Nuussuaq peninsula in western Greenland. The scientific name of these bivalves is Inoceramus steenstrupi. They lived between about 83 million and about 65 million years ago. These are the largest bivalve molluscs ever to exist. It is thought that they lived in an oxygen-poor environment and that they lay unattached on the sea floor filtering plankton and detritus from the water. This shell is 178cm long. The other shell of the bivalve is in the Geological Museum of Copenhagen. Donated by the Geological Museum of Copenhagen and the Aage V. Jensen's Foundation." Source: Explanatory sign at Grønlands Naturinstitut

This swordfish, however, was a decoration built for the purpose.

A tour around the building was a part of the presentation.

The blue panels on the wall contained information in Greenlandic and in Danish on, among other topics, the Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, in Danish Hellefisk).

To the right: Researchers at work at Naturinstitut.

Below: A panorama of Nuuk. The component pictures were taken from outside Naturinstitut. At the right edge of the panorama, one of the Naturinstitut buildings can be seen.