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Hvitserk, Ullern Allé 41, N-0381 Oslo, Norway. Tel: +47 24 12 62 30; fax: +47 24 12 62
31; email: post@hvitserk.no; website: www.hvitserk.no
Tangent Expeditions (UK) offers various guided trips to Greenland and Svalbard as
well as providing logistics for independent expeditions. Tangent Expeditions
International, 3 Millbeck, New Hutton, Kendal, Cumbria LA8 0BD, UK. Tel: +44
(0)1539 737757; fax: +44 (0)1539 737556; email: paul@tangent-expeditions.co.uk;
website: www.tangent-expeditions.co.uk/
Contacts Greenland
Atuagkat Bookstore PO Box 1009, DK-3900 Nuuk, Greenland. Tel: +299 321737,
Email: atuagkat@greenet.gl, Website: www.atuagkat.gl. Greenland’s largest
bookstore.
Chief Constable of Greenland, PO Box 1006, Nuuk, DK–3900, Greenland. Provider
of Firearms permits.
Greenlandair, PO Box 1012, DK–3900 Nuuk, Greenland, Tel: +299 34 34 34 * Fax:
+299 32 72 88, Email: info@airgreenland.gl, Website: www.greenlandguide.gl/gla/default.htm
Greenland Telecom, PO Box 1002, DK–3900 Nuuk. Greenland. Tel: +9 299 23120;
fax: +9 299 23130. Greenland Radio Licensing authority.
Greenland Tourism, Greenland Tourism a/s, Head Office, PO Box 1552, Hans
Egdesvej 29, DK–3900 Nuuk, Greenland. Tel: +9 299 22888, fax:+9 299 22877.
Denmark: tel. +45 33 136975; fax: +45 33 933883.
Hotel Nansen PO Box 48, DK-3913 Tasilaq, Greenland. Tel: +299 982101, Fax: +299
982201, Email: nansen@greennet.gl, Website: www.nansen.gl. The hotel has 2
person rooms and kitchen facilities. It caters for B&B, Half Board or Full Board,
and has a storage/working area for expedition kit. It costs approximately 400DK
per person per night (accom only), depending on whether it is high/low season.
Kangerlussuaq Tourism PO Box 49, 3910 Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. Tel: +299
841098, Fax: +299 841498, Email: info@kangerlussuaqtourism.gl. Website:
www.kangerlussuaqtourism.gl. They can deliver/collect groups to and from the
icecap. They also offer some bunk room accommodation in Old Camp (2km from
Sondre Stromfjord airport.)
Mt Forel Expedition Support, c/o Dr Hans Christian FlorianBox 116, DK–3913
Ammassalik, East Greenland. Tel: +9 29998 13 20, fax: 299 98 13 73, email:
florian@greennet.gl; www.ammassalik.gl/MFES/frame1.html. Provides logistic
support and guiding for East Greenland.
Contacts Iceland
Please note that from spring 2004 Flybus (airport bus) departures and drop offs unless you
are going from or to one of the major hotels occur at the main BSI bus terminal in
Reykjavik on north side of the Reykjavik airport instead of the Loftleider Hotel.
Iceland Express Surdurlandsbraut 24, 108 Reykjavik, Iceland. Website:
www.icelandexpress.com. Runs daily scheduled flights between Denmark, Iceland
and the UK. One way tickets possible for as little as £60, earliest bookings get the
best ticket prices