November Nature PEI and guests the Vinland Society invite you to a presentation:  “Sixteen Things You Didn’t Know About Greenland”, with Dr. David Cairns, marine and arctic biologist.

Nature PEI’s monthly meeting is on November 4th at 7:30PM at Beaconsfield Carriage House, 2 Kent Street Charlottetown, corner of West and Kent Streets. David’s talk will follow discussion about 8PM on nature topics and sightings, and a fun fundraising raffle.   **The presentation will also be live-streamed online on the Nature PEI Facebook site.**

Admission is free and all are welcome.

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Nature PEI and the Vinland Society of Prince Edward Island are pleased to present a talk on the world’s largest island, called Sixteen Things You Didn’t Know About Greenland. The event will take place at the Beaconsfield Carriage House in Charlottetown on November 4, starting at 7:30 pm. Admission is free and all are welcome. The speaker is marine and arctic biologist Dr. David Cairns.

In this talk, you will learn that Greenland was born of a failed revolt against North America, that the first chronicler of Greenland history was Chicken Little, that Greenland is a dog bowl, that Greenland was the last major place in the world to be settled by humans, that Greenland is barren only above the waterline, that the traditional explanation of why seals abound in Greenland is wrong, that Greenland’s most spectacular wildlife species is the reason you rarely see spectacular wildlife in Greenland, that the key to human habitation of the Arctic is imitating polar bears, that “Greenland” is a real estate slogan, that elephants were the downfall of the Norse Greenlandic colonies, that Greenland was part of the greatest territorial conquest in the pre-Columbian New World, that the indigenous people of Greenland were the last ethnic group to arrive there, that the money used in Greenland has holes in it, that the heyday of Canada-Greenland commercial exchange was trade in pieces of Chicken Little’s meteorite, that Trump has Greenland’s strategic importance wrong, and that Canada and Canadians can help Greenland achieve its national goals.

David Cairns, a native Prince Edward Islander, first went north to wild places in 1977. After graduate work on Arctic seabirds, he spent a career in fisheries biology with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, to which he is still attached as a Scientist Emeritus. David believes that the key to science, and perhaps the key to life, is finding the most interesting questions to ask. This talk asks, and tries to answer, the most interesting questions he has found about Greenland.

More information on the Meeting at the Nature PEI Facebook Event Page.