克里斯蒂安王子之声，格陵兰岛 Prince Christian Sound in southern Greenland (© Posnov/Getty Images)

克里斯蒂安王子之声，格陵兰岛 Prince Christian Sound in southern Greenland (© Posnov/Getty Images)

一座北部岛屿的南端 Southern tip of a northern isle

格陵兰岛南部的克里斯蒂安王子湾

格陵兰岛的绝对面积很难预测。这个世界上最大的岛屿面积超过83.6万平方英里，是德克萨斯州的三倍多，比阿拉斯加大17万多平方英里。这是一片有着深邃峡湾和冰层的土地，这一定让一千年前登陆那里的挪威探险家们感到宾至如归。

今天，我们发现自己身处格陵兰岛南端的克里斯蒂安王子湾，这是一个长60英里、宽1500英尺的狭长峡湾系统。它流经海拔1200英尺以上的花岗岩陡峭峡谷。冰河崩解、鲸鱼入侵以及游轮访问该地区，经常扰乱这些水域的平静。在这片冰冻的土地上，唯一的人类居住地是伊努伊特人居住的Aappilatoq村，该村约有100人。

Prince Christian Sound in southern Greenland

The sheer size of Greenland is hard to put in perspective. The world's largest island is more than 836,000 square miles—that's more than three times the size of Texas and more than 170,000 square miles larger than Alaska. It is a land of deep fjords and ice that must have made the Norse explorers who landed there a thousand years ago feel right at home.

Today we find ourselves at the southern tip of Greenland, in Prince Christian Sound, a long, narrow fjord system 60 miles long, at times as narrow as 1,500 feet across. It flows through steep canyons of granite that soar over 1,200 feet above. The placid calm of these waters is frequently disrupted by calving glaciers, breaching whales, and the cruise ships that visit the region. The only human habitation in this frozen landscape is the Inuit village of Aappilattoq, home to about 100 people.