Firearms and emergency radios are available for personal safety. For regional and local communication HF and VHF radios are available. Access and transportation Travelling to and from Zackenberg Station is handled by Danish Polar Center. The only aircraft type in use is the Twin Otter with a total payload of 1000 kg. Once a year, in the first half of August, a cargo ship from Denmark calls in at Zackenberg.
Local transportation is based on hiking, skiing, boating or use of All Terrain Vehicle.
Monitoring Zackenberg Station has a diverse long-term monitoring programme, called Zackenberg Basic. The main thrust of operating permanent monitoring is to secure the provision of long time series of background ecosystem data from a High Arctic area. Besides, data from the monitoring programme are used free of charge by researchers working at Zackenberg Station. Local community Zackenberg Station does not have any Greenland community nearby. The closest habitation is the military outpost Sirius at Daneborg c.