Saqqaq
Saqqaq is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland. Founded in 1755 as Solsiden, Saqqaq had 132 inhabitants in 2020. The village's Kalaallisut name is a translation of the Danish meaning "Sunny Side", in reference to its position relative to Livets Top.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 132 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Sarkak” and “Solsiden”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saqqaq Heliport.
Saqqaq Heliport
Helipad
Saqqaq Heliport is a heliport in Saqqaq, a village on the Nuussuaq Peninsula in the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland. The heliport is considered a helistop, and is served by Air Greenland as part of a government contract.
Saqqaq
- Categories: human settlement, rural area, and locality
- Location: Avannaata, Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
70.01091° or 70° 0′ 39″ northLongitude
-51.94268° or 51° 56′ 34″ westPopulation
132Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)IATA airport code
QUPOpen location code
C82C2364+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 2051281255OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Uzbek—“Saqqaq” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Saqqaq”
- Cebuano: “Saqqaq”
- Chinese: “薩卡克”
- Czech: “Saqqaq”
- Danish: “Saqqaq”
- Danish: “Sarqaq”
- Dutch: “Saqqaq”
- Finnish: “Saqqaq”
- French: “Saqqaq”
- Georgian: “საკაკი”
- German: “Saqqaq”
- Hebrew: “תרבות סאקאק”
- Inuktitut: “ᓴᖅᖃᖅ”
- Irish: “Saqqaq”
- Italian: “Saqqaq”
- Japanese: “サカック”
- Korean: “사카크”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saqqaq”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saqqaq”
- Norwegian: “Saqqaq”
- Polish: “Saqqaq”
- Portuguese: “Saqqaq”
- Russian: “Саккак”
- Spanish: “Saqqaq”
- Swedish: “Saqqaq”
- Turkish: “Saqqaq”
- Uzbek: “Saqqaq”
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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 “Saqqaq”. Photo: Awewewe, CC BY-SA 4.0.