A couple of new series will fill out Greenland’s 2025 stamp program. Greenland is superb at ensuring new themes are introduced yearly, keeping their designs fresh and exciting. Three sets are premiering this year, with the first, Buuti Pedersen’s Greenlandic Plants, kicking off the season.

… [Pedersen] has an avid interest in botany. She recalls that, at the age of 12, she found a flower in her native town of Qaqortoq that was previously only known to have grown in one place in
Greenland, namely near the hot spring at Uunartoq, Ittoqqortoormiit. The flower is currently kept at the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen. Buuti visited the museum some years ago, where the preserved flower was shown to her. 
Greenland Collector Vol. 30 | No. 1 | January 2025

Nice way to start the year, with a bit of green and red.

Its been a hard year for Greenland and Canada, and will only get stranger and more difficult. I feel a certain protective feeling towards our eastern neighbour and hope that sense comes through in the descriptions below. I always spend quite a bit of time on Greenland and its artists, but this year, if feels more important to support them, even in the smallest ways. Read, learn and celebrate everything about Greenland and its people.

Elbows up Greenland!

January

Greenlandic Plants
new series

2 stamps, 3 FDCs, cancel, sheets of 20 (2 stamps x 10)
offset

Despite it’s reputation for ice and snow, Greenland is home to 520 native plants.  

• Dwarf Fireweed (Chamaenerion latifolium) – Niviarsiaq (young girl or nurse) Dwarf Fireweed (Chamerion latifolium) · iNaturalist 
  Greenland’s national flower. This native to the tundra is a vital flower for the Inuit.  In the Arctic, this plant provides valuable nutrition for the Inuit, who eat the leaves raw, boiled with fat, or steeped in water for tea, the flowers and fruits raw, and as a salad with meals of seal and walrus blubber.The leaves and shoots are edible, tasting much like spinach, and is also known in the Canadian tundra as River Beauty

• Lapland Rosebay (Rhododendron lapponicum) – Oqaasaq. Lapland Rosebay – Rhododendron lapponicum – Alaska Wildflowers Lapland Rosebay is similar to Labrador Tea, but is smaller and rarer and flowers later.

Designer: Buuti Pedersen
Pederson began stamp designing in 1995, starting with Greenland’s Christmas set. 

Release date: January 31, 2025

Sirius Patrol 75 Years

1 stamp, FDC, cancel, sheet of 10
offset

Siriuspatruljen This legendary Danish special military unit was formed in to protect Greenland’s vast Northeast land. Formed initially to assert Denmark’s claim to the land, it has since seen its purpose expand over the years.

In 1974, the entire Northeast of Greenland was declared a national park with the aim of preserving the nature there in its original form. Covering an area of 972,000 km2, it is the largest national park in the world. Despite the harsh climate, there is an abundance of wildlife in the national park. Polar bears, Arctic wolves, Arctic foxes, musk oxen, walruses, seals, snow hares, lemmings, eiders, snowy owls and ravens have all adapted to life in the harsh Arctic climate. The SIRIUS Patrol’s tasks include registering the prevalence of both mammals and birds in the region.

Other primary tasks of the patrol include: Enforcing Danish sovereignty by maintaining a physical presence in North and Northeast Greenland. Exercising law enforcement in the world’s largest national park, to include overseeing expeditions, conservation regulations, and wildlife. This is done by military surveillance of 160,000 km2, using dog sleds.
Greenland Collector Vol. 30 | No. 1 | January 2025 pg 5

Find out more about the history of this patrol, the teams and how they operate Slædepatruljen Sirius | Xsirius. The page offers both Danish and English versions. 

Two previous stamps saluting SIRIUS were released by Greenland. The first was Martin Mörck’s engraved 50 years Sledge patrol Sirius (2000) and Lisbeth Karline’s Alfred Olsen, Solidier on Sirius Patrol (2023) from the Heroes of Greenland series.

Designer: Miki Jacobsen
This is Greenlander Jacobsen’s 36th stamp since her first in 1992.

Release date: January 31, 2025 

Greenlandic Dog Sleds
2nd in series

2 stamps, 3 FDCs, cancel, sheet of 20 stamps (2 x ten each)
offset

This year dogsleds from East Greenland are shown. 

Designer: Konrad Nuka Godtfredsen
Godtfredsen’s first stamp was Greenland’s 2007 EUROPA: Scouting set. The dogsled stamps are his 12th and 13th design. He also created the first Dogsled stamps last year.

Release date: January 31, 2025 

Greenland’s Council of Gender Equality – NALI 
Additional Value Stamp

1 stamp, souvenir sheet, FDC, cancel, souvenir folder, sheet of 10
offset

The souvenir folder shows NALI’s logo on the front cover. Funds raised from the souvenir folder and souvenir sheet will go to NALI. 

This year, NALI’s focus is on:

1. Gender-based violence
2. Gender equality in the labour market
3. Discrimination
4. Digital violations

Designer: Kristine Spore Kreutzmann

Release date: January 31, 2025 

April

Qaqortoq 250th Anniversary
60°43′20″N 46°02′25″W

1 stamp, FDC, cancel, sheets of10
offset

The southern town of Qaqortoq celebrated it’s 250th anniversary on April 7.  The 4th largest community in Greenland was founded in 1775 by merchant and farmer Anders Olsen. Not sure if he was being cynical or a realist but the name Qaqortoq translates to “the white thing”. 

Qaqortoq: The largest town in South Greenland [Visit Greenland!]

Designer: Bolatta Silis-Høegh . 

Release date: April 7, 2025

May

EUROPA 2025: National Archaeological Treasures – Qilakitsoq Mummies and the Kingittorsuaq Runestone

2 stamps, booklet of 12 (2 x 6 each), FDC, cancel, 2 sheets of 10
offset

This year’s EUROPA theme explores archeological treasures. Greenland focused on two items that helped develop a clearer picture of early life on the land.

Qilakitsoq Mummies  – The mummies are the oldest preserved remains found in Greenland to date. They were uncovered in 1972 near a small, abandoned Inuit village located 450 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. The unusual graves held the mummified bodies of 6 women and 2 boys. 

They were wrapped in animal skins and fully clothed. They were equipped for a long journey to the underworld, carefully prepared according to ancient, traditional rites. They had extra skins and clothing to afford them a safe journey and a good life in the realm of the dead. The five oldest women have almost identical facial tattoos that can express both kinship and social status. The youngest woman of about 20 years is not tattooed. Perhaps she was either unmarried or childless. Tattoos have been in common use among Inuit women for thousands of years. There were amulets on and among their clothing.
Greenland Collector Vol. 30 | No. 2 | May 2025 pg 4

Archaeologists have dated the mummies to around 1475 AD. The bodies were found in two graves a meter apart. In each grave, had been stacked on top of each other with layers of animal skin in between. The dry, freezing environment, aided by the overhanging rock that sheltered the gravesite resulted in the 3natural mummification of the bodies.

Dental analysis has revealed the age of the mummies. Grave one contained three women, a four-year-old boy, and a six-month-old baby. Two of the women were young; one aged between 20-30, the other between 25-35 years of age. The final woman was estimated to have been between 40-50 when she died. Grave Two contained three female bodies. Two were in their 50s while the last woman was between 18-21 years of age. The Qilakitsoq Mummies: Who Were They, and How Did They Die? | History and Archaeology Online

 Kingittorsuaq Runestone – Dated to around 1250 and 1333, the Runestone was discovered in Northwest Greenland on Kingittorsuaq Island, Upernavik Archipelago in 1824. They are housed at the National Museum of Denmark. They were found in one of three collapsed cairns placed at the top of the highest point on the island. Part of the rune remains untranslatable. 

Designer: Maya Sialuk Jacobsen
Jacobsen is a Greenlandic Inuk with an interesting background as private researcher, tattooist and artist. Her talents led her to form the Inuit Tattoo Traditions research project. The project explores and preserves Inuit tattooing in Greenland, Canada and Alaska. These are her 3rd and 4th stamps for Greenland post.  She designed the second Traditional Woman’s Facial Tattoo Pattern stamps in 2023, which featured tattoos found on one of the Qilakitsoq Mummies (the first stamp in the pair below).

Jacobsen was interviewed in 2023 for The Changing Face of the Inuit Tattoo Movement 

Release date: May 26. 2025

SEPAC: Architecture  – Ilulissat Icefjord Centre
69°08′N 49°30′W

1 stamp, FDC, cancel, sheets of 10
offset

This year’s SEPAC competition focuses on architectural gems. Greenland features the Ilulissat Icefjord Centre, known for both its architectural beauty as it is the breathtaking natural surroundings. 

The Icefjord Centre, situated on the spectacular icefjord in Ilulissat, is not only a cultural hub, but also an architectural masterpiece. The building impressively combines modern design with respect for the surrounding nature. Inspired by the dynamism of the Icefjord, the shape of the building is both elegant and organic, making it a landmark for contemporary Greenlandic architecture. Architect Dorthe Mandrup designed the Icefjord Centre. She has accomplished this with great respect for the surrounding nature.
Greenland Collector Vol. 30 | No. 2 | May 2025 pg 64

Ilulissat Icefjord Centre and The Whale wins Canadian AZ Awards | Dorte Mandrup 

Architect Dorthe Mandrup is a strong advocate for design that strikes a “balance between nature and culture”, and this is strongly convened in her creations. She incorporates natural landscape into the overall look and design of her buildings. The final plans had to respect and protect the UNESCO protected Icefjord it is build on:

At the western coast of Greenland lies the massive glacier Sermeq Kujalleq. For more than 250 years, glaciologists have studied the ancient glacier and its daily production of immense amounts of ice, and it remains an ideal spot for scientific observation of climate change. Dorte Mandrup has designed the new Icefjord Centre in Ilulissat to blend in with the impressive landscape while offering local residents, tourists, and climate researchers the ultimate vantage point from which to absorb the historic atmosphere of the Icefjord. The Icefjord Centre will tell a story of ice, of human history and evolution on both a local and global scale.
Ilulissat Icefjord Centre, Greenland | Dorte Mandrup

Another example of her design sense can be found at the Nunavut Inuit Heritage Centre, Canada. 

The Ilulissat Icefjord has been featured on two stamps. The first was 2005 Ilulissat Icefjord (World Heritage 2004) stamp and 2024 Sepac 2024: Main Tourist Attraction Ilulissat. Read more about the stamps here Experimenting with Greenland’s 2024 stamp program – Bitter Grounds Magazine

Designer: Naja Rosing-Asvid
Greenland couldn’t have picked a better designer for this set.  Rosing-Asvid is a trained architect as well as designer, scene designer for the National Museum of Greenland, children’s book writer, and artist, to mention a few of her many talents. She attended the  Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Architecture in Copenhagen and later Academy of Fine Arts in Holdbæk. This is her 21st stamp design. 
najarosingasvid.dk

Release date: May 26. 2025

Frederik X
definitive

1 stamp, FDC, cancel, sheets of 10
offset

King Frederik X took the throne January 14, 2024 with the abdication of his mother Queen Margrethe. This is the first definitive set featuring his portrait. 

Photographer: Steen Brogaard
Brogaard also provided the photographs for the 2023 Queen Margrethe definitives, with Martin Mörck designing and engraving them. 

“My photographs have defined the face of Danish democracy and captured historic royal moments. My work ranges from precise business portraits to artistic sessions where I explore the tension between the social surface of the human being and its deeper nature. It is in this space that my portraits arise.” Steen Brogaard: Behind the Facade – A Photographer’s Journey Through Time & Passion — PHOTOGRAPHER STEEN BROGAARD

Designer and engraver: Martin Mörck

Release date: May 26, 2025

July

Jens Rosing – 100th Anniversary

1 stamp, souvenir sheet, black print,  souvenir folder, prestige booklet.

“Grand Old Man of Greenlandic stamps”

This will be a full set honouring his talents, including a commemorative stamp, a souvenir sheet, a black print, a souvenir folder and a prestige booklet

Release date: July 28, 2025

September 

Ittoqqortoormiit – 100th Anniversary

1 stamp

This stamp will use art from Pia Arke, who made her home in Ittoqqortoormiit until her death in 2007

Artist: Pia Arke,

Release date: September 4, 2025

100 Years of Telecommunications

2 stamps, souvenir sheet

Designer: Martin Brandt Hansen

Release date: September 6, 2025

Dove of Peace
embroidered stamp

1 stamp

Common theme designed by Liechtenstein based Hämmerle & Vogel. This will be a fully embroidered stamp on cloth. 

Will include a souvenir folder

Release date: September 21, 2025

Ethnographic Photos from Greenland 
new series

Designer: Ina Rosing

Release date: September 24, 2025

The West Nordic Council

Designer: Maria Panínguak’ Kjærulff

Release date: September 24, 2025

November

Everyday Heroes in Greenland

Ongoing series will feature 2 new stamps

Designer: Lisbeth Karline

Release date: November 7, 2025 

International Inuit Day

International Inuit Day | Indigenous | Memorial University of Newfoundland

Designer: Hari Arnaq Kristoffersen

Release date: November 7, 2025 

Christmas 2025  

Designer: Nikolaj Andersen Olsvig
This will be Olsvig’s second stamp.

Release date: November 7, 2025 

Franking Labels – Snowy Owl

Date: TBA