{"id":254475,"date":"2026-04-17T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=254475"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:16:01","slug":"the-new-gateway-to-southern-greenland-island-opens-new-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/254475\/","title":{"rendered":"The new gateway to Southern Greenland: Island opens new airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new airport has opened in Qaqortoq, giving international travellers direct access to the main town of South Greenland for the first time, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

It marks the opening up of one of the Arctic’s most diverse and lesser-visited areas.<\/p>\n

“South Greenland offers a rare combination of powerful nature and a living culture shaped over generations,” Visit Greenland Director Anne Nivika Grødem says.<\/p>\n

Previously accessible only by helicopter or boat, Qaqortoq has now become the main gateway to the south.<\/p>\n

South Greenland is known for its green pastures, sheep farming and wild nature.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new airport has opened in Qaqortoq, giving international travellers direct access to the main town of South Greenland for the first time, Euronews writes. It marks the opening up of one of the Arctic’s most diverse and lesser-visited areas. “South Greenland offers a rare combination of powerful nature and a living culture shaped over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":254462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254477,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254475\/revisions\/254477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}