Royal Greenland Trading Department

The Instruction of 1782 divided the colony into northern and southern halves, forbade senior management from intermarriage with native or racially mixed women and lower-ranking employees from intermarriage with native or European women,[2] and banned further attempts to urbanize the Inuit or alter their traditional way of life through improved employment opportunities or sales of luxury items.

[6] Ships operated by the trading department included the Mariane, Tjalfe, Godthaab, Gertrud Rask, Gustav Holm,[3] and Ceres.

[7] From 1792, the armed vessel Dorothea served as a coastal patrol in northern Greenland in order to prevent illegal trading between the Inuit and foreign ships and to discourage whaling by other nations in the area.

[8] The company's monopoly was finally ended in 1950,[9] as the two halves of Greenland were reunited in preparation for the island's full integration with the Kingdom of Denmark, which occurred in 1953.

The Home Rule Government was introduced in 1979 and gained control of the company in 1986,[10][11] renaming it Kalaallit Niuerfiat (Kalallisut: "Greenland Trade").