page_title: Foulk Fjord
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Foulk Fjord / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Brother John's Glacier from Foulk Fjord
context_page_description: Foulk Fjord is a fjord in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.
context_section_description: The area lies on the ancient migration route from the north of the Canadian Arctic, with several waves of ancient migrants passing through the area, from the northbound Independence I and Independence II cultures 4,400 and 2,700 years ago, respectively, to the southbound Thule culture migrants a thousand years ago. It is also the point where the last migration of the Inuit from Baffin Island reached the coast of Greenland in 1865. An Inuit shaman named Qidlaq led the migrants from Baffin Island alongside the coast of Ellesmere Island for seven years, crossing the strait and fjord to Etah. The group split there, with some returning to Pond Inlet in Canada at a cost of many lives. Inhabitants of Pituffik, later relocated to Qaanaaq, are partially descended from this last group of Arctic migrants to Greenland.
caption: Brother John's Glacier as seen from Foulke Fjord (frozen) near Etah, Greenland, Spring 1938
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