Just getting to Greenland is an adventure holiday, but for those who want to step onto terra firma and out of their comfort zone, Greenland is Go-Pro gorgeous. Hike and wild camp along the elevated, exquisite landscapes of the east with views out across the Northeast Greenland National Park. Go on a veritable polar expedition, cross country skiing across the ice cap, dog sledding or trekking alongside the great Jakobshavn or Equi glaciers. And you can even go diving with polar experts alongside glaciers and icebergs. Or just chill and watch the Northern Lights.

Take a small ship cruise or sailing trip around Greenland’s fjords, its vast national park or across the Denmark Strait, to really get to grips with Greenland’s poetry in motion. Watch icebergs calving from their mother glaciers, look out for polar bears and whales, enjoy lectures and guidance from expert naturalists on board, and anchor up at small bays that are home to Inuit communities, or long abandoned islands.

The most sparsely populated island in the world in terms of humans, Greenland has prolific wildlife. Spotting polar bears on ice floes, walrus in the fjords, reindeer and massive musk oxen on the tundra, minke, beluga, humpback or even rare blue whales presenting in the deep, will make your day. And with days that go on all day in summer, you have twice as much time to see them.

Eat whale meat. Controversially, Greenland is one of several places in the world that still allows hunting for whales, contravening the International Whaling Commission’s commercial whaling moratorium. It is permitted as a subsistence practice by indigenous whalers, but whale meat is often on sale to tourists. Which increases demand and, therefore, the killing. We do not therefore recommend eating whale meat as it is a direct threat to whale species.

Hunting also plays a role in Inuit society, and trophy hunting is a tourist thing. Most responsible travellers will not see the killing of seals or polar bears as their thing, but we also encourage visitors to keep an open mind, and understand that the culture among your Arctic hosts is very different, and an innate way of life. So, don’t to go in with metaphorical guns ablazing on the subject.

Refer to people as Eskimos. The native Greenlanders, or Kalaallit, are Inuit descendants of nomads from northern Canada, and they make up almost 90 percent of the population here. The word Eskimo is considered derogatory, so stick to Greenlander, and while you’re at it, learn a couple of words of their language – Greenlandic.