East Greenland is known to West-Greenlanders as Tunu, "the back side". The 2700km long coastline sports the whole two communities - a lot of place for a vacation, if one doesn't necessarily want to meet his neighbours. And that phantastic light...
This map is a fragment of British, Danish & Russian Possessions In North America, published in 1856 within Colton's Atlas Of The World ("Russian" relates to Alaska that didn't become American until 1867, when it changed hands for $7,2 million). This atlas was the first world atlas produced by J.H.Colton in New York, after many years of issuing pocket maps, wall maps, guides, and maps for books. The atlas was one of the finest and most accurate of the period - it had a long publishing run, continuing for over thirty years.
The Eastern coast of Greenland to the North of Cap Dan is pictured in a draft and not inhabited - Ammassalik was "discovered" accidentally by the Danish expedition of Gustav Holm as late as 1884. The Arctic Circle actually crosses Iceland once - it runs shortly over the northern tip of the small island Grímsey 50 miles north of Akureyri.
