About half of Greenland' s 55,000 inhabitants live in the large towns along the country' s west 
  coast, including Nuuk  the capital. Enormous fjord systems and skerries are typical of the whole 
  region, and there are opportunities for boat trips during most of the year with a good chance of 
  seeing seals and whales.
 

  The Gulf Stream reaches this part of Greenland, preventing the sea from freezing over in winter. 
  The main occupation in the coastal towns is fishing for prawns and Greenland halibut, but visitors
  show more interest in the many fine char rivers.
 

  Greenland' s National Museum is in Nuuk, and among its exhibits are the well preserved mum-
  mies of a group of women and children who are thought to have died around 1475 when when 
  their boat capsized. The museum is in the oldest part of the town, where the buildings date back 
  to 1728, the time when the Norwegian missionary Hans Egede lived here.

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