(21 Jun 2025)
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Nuuk – 21 June 2025
1. Various of Greenlanders in traditional costume singing before marching to start its national day
2. Greenlanders marching towards the colonial harbour
3. People gathering
4. People waving Greenland’s flags
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Johannes Ostermann, local resident:
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"Today is a very special day for Greenland, 21st of June. It’s a day we got our home rule government in 2009. We established ourselves away from Denmark and we got our own human rights. I consider it some part of family where you get to go out in the city and you get to meet the people you haven’t met in a while and you know they’re going to be there because it’s a big day for Greenland and we enjoy each other’s company. Everyone says congratulations to each other, everyone’s saying hi, everyone’s being very very nice because it is a very nice day for us all."
6. Wide of boats starting to sail with sound of cannon salute for seal hunting competition
7. The first boat coming back
8. Seal being cut
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Pilo Samuelsen (left), seal hunt competitor:
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"It’s a day of unity and the celebration. All people come together on this day, and it’s.. The seal hunt competition is a nice tradition. And it’s fun and it brings people together."
10. Winners posing for photo in front of the prize
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kalerak Heilmann (right), seal hunt competitor:
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"Especially, it’s our flag’s 40th anniversary today. Our flag is only 40 years."
12. Greenland national flag
13. Various of people dancing
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Aviaaja Frederii, local:
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"We have a lot of going on with the USA and Denmark and stuff but we stay stand and like representing our culture and this day we show our culture to the out coming people who is working here or moved here so it’s a big day for us."
15. People marching with flags
STORYLINE:
Greenlanders celebrated National Day, the Arctic island’s biggest summer festival, on Saturday to mark the solstice with songs, cannon salutes and dances under 24 hours of sunlight.
Revelers across the semi-autonomous Danish territory, which is also coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump, honored the longest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical summer, with a march through their hometowns waving flags and participating in a seal hunting competition.
The national holiday was declared in 1985, following a referendum on home rule six years earlier, with the inaugural raising of the red-and-white Greenlandic flag. As the sun came out, locals gathered for the day of festivities, visiting friends and families, eating and dancing together.
Greenland’s roughly 56,000 inhabitants look forward to the midnight sun each year from May 25 to July 25, before the long, dark winter reappears.
The strategic, mineral-rich island has made headlines after Trump declared it his mission to make it part of the U.S., saying it’s crucial for American security in the high north.
Trump has not ruled out military force to seize Greenland despite strong rebukes from Denmark, a NATO ally, and Greenland itself. Danish and Greenlandic leaders say the island is not for sale and have condemned reports of the U.S. stepping up intelligence gathering there.
On Saturday, Greenlanders tried to leave politics behind to enjoy the seemingly endless summer sunshine.
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