Greenland High Sea

South of Greenland, the Atlantic surrounds the Cape Farewell archipelago. Mountains rise behind the cape, while islands and skerries lie in waters notorious for rough weather. The East Greenland Current carries drifting ice south along the eastern shore and around the island's tip. For ships approaching the Norse settlements of southern Greenland, reaching land meant finding a passage through changing ice and the exposed sea before entering the sheltered fjords.