We are on a tour of Nuuk today, and will report tomorrow with photos.  For now: Nuuk is the Greenlandic word for cape. Known as Godthab in Denmark, a name used until 1879, when home rule was established. Capital and most populous city with 20,298 people, or 36% of Greenland.  The population has doubled since 1977. First occupied by pre-Inuit Saqqaq culture as far back as 2200 BC. Norse settlers came around 1000, but disappeared  for uncertain reasons during the 15th centtury. City established in 1728 by Danish-Norwegian  royal governor Claus Paarss and missionary/merchant Hans Egede. Moravian missionaries came in 1733. Paarass's colonists were mutinous soldiers, convicts and prostitutes, and most died of scurvy and other ailments in the first year. In 1733 and 1734, a smallpox epidemic killed most of the native population, as well as Egede's wife.   Hans left Greenland to return to Denmark in 1736, leaving son Poul Egede ( right) to continue his work. Godt...