Jan 14: “Greenland the Beautiful”
Dr. Tony Waltham: Retired Senior Lecturer, University of Nottingham, UK, Award-winning Geologist, Author, and Lecturer
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 3:00-4:00 pm
Reception to follow
Koffler Great Room at ASA and Zoom
13715 E. Langtry Lane
In his third and final lecture, Tony Waltham will take us to Greenland, an Arctic wilderness he calls “fascinating, spectacular, and truly beautiful.” Is has recently become a place of great interest to US citizens, since our current president has vowed to acquire it, although it is—apparently happily– an autonomous region of Denmark. Largely covered by a huge and featureless ice sheet, the coastal margins of Greenland present glorious landscapes of bare rock and sparkling glaciers. A scatter of small and isolated communities of wooden houses painted in bright colors stand against backdrops of jagged mountains and passing icebergs. Few people venture onto the “Inland Ice,” a vast and alien environment. At lower altitudes, there are farms on green pastures around some of the southern fjords, where the first Viking settlers arrived and called it a “Green Land.” Further north, the dominant terrain type is bare rock. In the discussion, we may learn why the US should suddenly want to take over this enormous and mysterious land mass.
Disko Bay, west coast of Greenland
Photo Credit: Tony Waltham geophotos.co.uk
