Qeqertarsuaq
Qeqertarsuaq is a port and town in Qeqertalik municipality, located on the south coast of Disko Island on the west coast of Greenland. Founded in 1773, the town is now home to a campus of the University of Copenhagen known as Arctic Station.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kristine Riskær, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 793 residents
- Description: town in Greenland
- Also known as: “Guthaven”, “Iluilek”, “K’ekertarssuak”, “Kekertarsuak”, “Leifly”, “Lievely”, “Port of Lievely”, “Qeqertarssuaq”, and “The Big Island”
- Historically known as: “Disko Harbor”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Qeqertarsuaq Museum and University of Copenhagen - Arctic Station.
University of Copenhagen - Arctic Station
University
University of Copenhagen Arctic Station ) is a year-round, environmental research facility in central West Greenland. Located about 300 metres northeast of Qeqertarsuaq, it faces Disko Bay and the Davis Strait on the south coast of Disko Island with the Blæsedalen valley to the north.
Qeqertarsuaq Heliport
Helipad
Photo: Dreizung, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Qeqertarsuaq Heliport is a heliport on the southern shore of Qeqertarsuaq Island in the Qeqertalik municipality, in western Greenland. It is located in Qeqertarsuaq, the biggest town on, and named after, the island.
Qeqertarsuaq
- Categories: municipality and locality
- Location: Qeqertalik, Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
69.24624° or 69° 14′ 46″ northLongitude
-53.53537° or 53° 32′ 7″ westPopulation
793IATA airport code
JGOUnited Nations Location Code
GL JGOOpen location code
98X86FW7+FVOpenStreetMap ID
node 996562205OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Qeqertarsuaq” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيكيرتارسواك”
- Asturian: “Godhavn”
- Asturian: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Basque: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Belarusian: “Кекертарсуак”
- Catalan: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Cebuano: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Chinese: “凯凯塔苏瓦克”
- Chinese: “凱凱塔蘇瓦克”
- Chinese: “戈德港”
- Czech: “Godhavn”
- Czech: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Danish: “den store ø”
- Danish: “Godhavn”
- Danish: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Dutch: “Godhavn”
- Dutch: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيكيرتارسواك”
- Esperanto: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Finnish: “Godhavn”
- Finnish: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Finnish: “Qeqertarsuatsiaq”
- French: “Godhavn”
- French: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Georgian: “კეკერტარსუაკი”
- German: “Godhavn”
- German: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Hebrew: “קקרטארסואק”
- Hungarian: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Icelandic: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Indonesian: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Italian: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Japanese: “ケケタシュアク”
- Japanese: “ケケルタルスアーク”
- Kalaallisut: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Livvi: “Qeqertarsuaq (kylä)”
- Livvi: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Luxembourgish: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Macedonian: “Кекертарсуак”
- Moksha: “Кэкэртарсуак”
- Northern Frisian: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Godhavn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Norwegian: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Polish: “Godhavn”
- Polish: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Portuguese: “Godhavn”
- Portuguese: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Russian: “Godhavn”
- Russian: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Russian: “Годхавн”
- Russian: “Кекертарсуак”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Sinhala: “කෙකර්ටාර්සුවාක්, ග්රීන්ලන්තය”
- Slovak: “Godhavn”
- Slovak: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Slovenian: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Spanish: “Godhavn”
- Spanish: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Swedish: “Qeqertarsuaq kommun”
- Swedish: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Thai: “เกเกร์ตาร์ซูอาก”
- Turkish: “Godhavn”
- Turkish: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- Ukrainian: “Кекертарсуак”
- Uzbek: “Qeqertarsuaq”
- “Qeqertarsuaq”
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