Royal Greenland's trawler Avataq, registered in Nuuk, alongside at the quay. Built in Spain and delivered in January 2020, she works prawns and Greenland halibut, with a factory deck that processes and freezes the catch at sea.

Isle Hessner's weathering-steel sculpture stands by Ilimmarfik, the campus of the University of Greenland (Ilisimatusarfik) in Nuuk, unveiled in 2015. It is called "Hyldest til fangerkonerne" in Danish, which roughly translates to "Tribute to the Hunters' Wives." It honours the wives of Greenland's hunters through the form of the ulu ("ulo" in Greenlandic), the traditional women's knife. Because the ulu takes a different shape on Greenland's east and west coasts, Hessner united both forms in a single work, a symbol of community between the two coasts.

A mural by street artist Cheeky wraps around a concrete wall in Nuuk, a blue-toned face and a mask held by a hand beside the words "Stay True," rendered in her bold, comic-influenced line work. The paired face and mask explore the idea of wearing a mask, and taking it off. Cheeky has described how many Greenlanders, especially young people, feel they must mask themselves and endure prejudice when they move to Denmark. With this artwork she wanted to bring those experiences to a wider audience. Someone has since added "cool" above the original text, so it could now be read as "Stay True, Stay Cool."

Dwarf fireweed, or Niviarsiaq in Greenlandic, is the national flower of Greenland. Here, it is captured on a hot summer Sunday as it blooms across the stony tundra at the foot of Quassussuaq (Danish: Lille Malene), east of Nuuk. Its Greenlandic name means "little girl," and it flowers through the brief Arctic summer, from June to September.

A single lamp holds a pool of light against the dark, the empty boardwalk deck glowing alone at the edge of the Nuuk night.

A bright red Japanese torii gate marks the entrance to the Nuuk Shotokan Karate-Do club, set against bare rock and mountains at Kissarneqqortuunnguaq (Danish: Vandsøvej). The gate nods to the Japanese origins of Shotokan karate, traditionally signalling the passage into a space of discipline and focus.

An Air Greenland Dash 8-200 airplane, the airline's workhorse for domestic routes, sits on the tarmac at Nuuk Airport, connecting major towns across Greenland such as Ilulissat and Sisimiut.