The heirs apparent to the 3 Scandinavian monarchies, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Crown Prince Haakon of Norway will travel on 27 May - 1 June 2009 on a research trip to Greenland in order to highlight climatic changes. Travelling with a team of internationally acknowledged researchers the successors to the three Scandinavian thrones will gain insight into how the climatic changes have influenced Greenland and its population.
On board the inspection vessel H.D.M.S. Ejnar Mikkelsen the heirs will travel from Kangerlussuaq to the Disko bay with climate researchers to observe environmental changes in Greenland and follow the researchers' lectures on climatic changes in the Arctic environment.
There will be visits in Qeqertarsuaq, where viable energy strategies are applied, and to the University of Copenhagen's Arctic research station. From here the journey proceeds to Ilulissat, Greenland's most active ice glacier, which has withdrawn 15 km over a few years as a consequence of warmer water in the inlet. After that the heirs travel to the research station NEEM on the inland ice, where the Centre for Ice and Climate at the University of Copenhagen, together with international partners, bore ice cores to a depth of 3 kilometres.
