Articles in Greenland ( 417 )

417 Articles of interest in Greenland

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  • Traill Island

    Traill Island (Danish: Traill Ø) is a large island in eastern Greenland. It is named after zoologist Thomas Stewart Traill. The highest point of the island is 1884 m.

  • Tasiilaq Heliport

    Tasiilaq Heliport (IATA: AGM, ICAO: BGAM) is a heliport in Tasiilaq, a town located on the Ammassalik Island in the Sermersooq municipality, in southeastern Greenland.

  • Statue of Hans Egede

    The Statue of Hans Egede is a prominent monument in Nuuk, Greenland. It commemorates the Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary Hans Egede who founded Nuuk in 1728. The statue lies on a hill near the shore above Nuuk Cathedral in the historical Old Nuuk…

  • Shannon Island

    Shannon is a large island in Northeast Greenland National Park in eastern Greenland, to the east of Hochstetter Foreland, with an area of 1,466 km2 (566 sq mi).

  • Paamiut Airport

    Paamiut Airport (Greenlandic: Mittarfik Paamiut) (IATA: JFR, ICAO: BGPT) is an airport located 1 NM (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) northeast of Paamiut, a town in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. It was built in 2007, replacing the old helip…

  • Nuuk Centrum

    Nuuk Centrum is a district of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. Together with the Old Nuuk neighborhood, it encompasses the southern and central part of the town.

  • Nuuk Cathedral

    Nuuk Cathedral (Greenlandic: Annaassisitta Oqaluffia) or Church of Our Saviour is a wooden Lutheran cathedral in the Old Nuuk neighborhood of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. It was established in 1849. The red building with its spire is a prominent …

  • Art Museum of Nuuk

    Nuuk Art Museum (Danish: Nuuk Kunstmuseum) is a national museum in Greenland, located in Nuuk, the capital. The museum contains a notable collection of paintings, watercolors, drawings, graphics, figures in soapstone, ivory, and wood, with many item…

  • Nutaarmiut

    Nutaarmiut (old spelling: Nutârmiut) is an island settlement in the Qaasuitsup municipality, in northwestern Greenland.

  • Naajaat

    Naajaat (Kalaallisut: "Seagulls") is a settlement in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. Former spellings include Naujât, Naujat, and Naajat.

  • Moravian Brethren Mission House

    Moravian Brethren Mission House or Herrnhut House (Danish: Herrnhuthuset) is a historical building in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, established in 1747 from timber shipped to the United Brethren from the Netherlands. It was the centre of the Morav…

  • Melville Bay

    Melville Bay (Greenlandic: Qimusseriarsuaq), is a large bay off the coast of northwestern Greenland. Located to the north of the Upernavik Archipelago, it opens to the south-west into Baffin Bay.

  • Kingittorsuaq Island

    Kingittorsuaq Island (old spelling: Kingigtorssuaq) is a small, uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is a small island in the southern part of the Upernavik Archipelago, located on the southwestern shores o…

  • Kangerlussuaq Fjord

    Kangerlussuaq Fjord (old spelling: Kangerdlugssuaq, Danish: Søndre Strømfjord) is a long fjord in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland. The fjord is 190 km (120 mi) long and between 1.5 km (0.93 mi) and 8 km (5.0 mi) wide, flowing f…

  • Isunngua

    Isunngua (old spelling: Isúngua) is a highland in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland, located immediately west of the Greenland Ice Sheet edge. In large part it is covered by the tundra, although in the immediate vicinity of the S…

  • Annoatok

    Annoatok or Anoritooq, located at (78°33′N72°30′W), was a small hunting station in Greenland on Smith Sound about 24 km (15 mi) north of Etah.

  • Franklin Island (Greenland)

    Franklin Island (Danish: Franklin Ø) is one of three islands located in Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait in the high Arctic and is part of Greenland. Its two sister islands are Crozier Island and Hans Island.

  • Ymer Island

    Ymer (Danish: Ymer Ø) is an island in northeastern Greenland. Its area is 2,437 km². It is mountainous (highest peak is Angelin Bjerg at 1900 m). The island is a part of Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest national park in the world.

  • Uummannaq Heliport

    Uummannaq Heliport (IATA: UMD, ICAO: BGUM) is a heliport in Uummannaq, a town located on Uummannaq Island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.

  • Upernavik Kujalleq

    Upernavik Kujalleq (old spelling: Upernavik Kujatdleq), formerly Søndre Upernavik, is an island settlement in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.

  • Sigguk Block

    Sigguk Block is an oil exploration block in Baffin Bay. It is located 175 kilometres (109 mi) west of Disko Island, Greenland. The block consists of Alpha, T4, and T8 prospects. The license to explore the block belongs to Cairn Energy's subsidiary C…

  • Qasigiannguit Heliport

    Qasigiannguit Heliport (IATA: JCH, ICAO: BGCH) is a heliport in the eastern part of Qasigiannguit, a town located on the southeastern shores of Disko Bay in the Qaasuitsup municipality, in western Greenland.

  • Polar Sun Spire

    Polar Sun Spire is a peak in the Sam Ford Fjord of Baffin Island, Canada. The spire is notable for its spectacular 1,300 m (4,300 ft) north face and has been the scene of some amazing epic climbs. The first ascent was made in 1996 by Mark Synnott, J…

  • Mont Forel

    Mont Forel is the highest mountain in Greenland that lies outside the area surrounding its absolute highest mountain, Gunnbjørn Fjeld. It is located just north of the Arctic Circle, north of Ammassalik Island in the Sermersooq municipality.

  • King Oscar Fjord

    King Oscar Fjord is a fjord in East Greenland, marking the northern border of the peninsula Scoresby Land. It is a major fjord, 10–25 km wide, bounded by Traill Island and Geographical Society Island. In the inner and northern end of the fjord lies …

  • Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord

    Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord (Kejser Franz Josef Fjord on Norwegian maps) is a major fjord system in East Greenland, bounded by Suess Land and Ymer Island to the South, and Frænkel Land, Andrée Land and Gauss Peninsula to the North.

  • Kangersuatsiaq

    Kangersuatsiaq (old spelling: Kangerssuatsiaq) (IATA: KGQ), formerly Prøven, is an island settlement in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.

  • Kalaaliaraq Market

    Kalaaliaraq Market (Danish: Brædtet) is a market in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, located in the Old Nuuk neighborhood, approximately 150 m (490 ft) to the southeast of the Nuuk Cathedral.

  • Hans Egede Church

    Hans Egede Church is an evangelical Lutheran church in Nuuk, Greenland, located in the district of Old Nuuk. The church was consecrated on the 250-year anniversary of the founding of Hans Egede's mission.