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Tasiusaq

Tasiusaq is an island settlement in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern . It had 252 inhabitants in 2020. In Kalaallisut, the name means "looks like a lake".
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  • Type: Village with 248 residents
  • Description: place in Avannaata, Greenland
  • Also known as: “Majestic Bay Settlement”, “Tasiusak”, and “Tasiusaq, Avannaata”
  • Historically known as: “Tasiussak” and “Tasiussaq”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tasiusaq Heliport.

Helipad
is a heliport in Tasiusaq, a village in the Upernavik Archipelago of Avannaata municipality in northwestern . The heliport is considered a helistop, and is served by Air Greenland as part of a government contract.

Tasiusaq

Latitude
73.36911° or 73° 22′ 9″ north
Longitude
-56.0565° or 56° 3′ 23″ west
Population
248
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
TQA
United Nations Location Code
GL TAS
Open location code
C8559W9V+J9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2049649041
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3419378
Wiki­data ID
Q2086866
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Satellite Map

Discover Tasiusaq from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Uzbek—“Tasiusaq” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Tasiusaq”
  • Czech: “Tasiusaq”
  • Danish: “Tasiusaq”
  • Danish: “Tasiussaq”
  • Dutch: “Tasiusaq”
  • French: “Tasiusaq”
  • Georgian: “ტასიუსაკი”
  • German: “Tasiusaq”
  • Irish: “Tasiusaq”
  • Italian: “Tasiusaq”
  • Japanese: “タシウシャク”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tasiusaq”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tasiusaq”
  • Norwegian: “Tasiusaq”
  • Polish: “Tasiusaq”
  • Portuguese: “Tasiusaq”
  • Russian: “Тасиусак”
  • Spanish: “Tasiusaq”
  • Swedish: “Tasiusaq”
  • Uzbek: “Tasiusaq (Avannaata)”
  • Uzbek: “Tasiusaq”

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Highlights include Saattorsuaq Island and Innaarsuit Heliport.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tasiusaq”. Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.