Qeqertarsuaq

Qeqertarsuaq is a port and town in municipality, located on the south coast of on the west coast of . Founded in 1773, the town is now home to a campus of the University of Copenhagen known as .
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  • Town with 793 residents
  • …has the IATA airport code JGO
  • …was formerly known as “Disko Harbor”
  • Description: town in Greenland
  • Also known as
    “Guthaven”
    “Iluilek”
    “K’ekertarssuak”
    “Kekertarsuak”
    “Leifly”
    “Lievely”
    “Port of Lievely”
    “Qeqertarssuaq”
    “The Big Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Qeqertarsuaq Museum and University of Copenhagen - Arctic Station.
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University of Copenhagen Arctic Station…
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is a heliport on the southern…

Qeqertarsuaq

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Latitude
69.24624° or 69° 14′ 46″ north
Longitude
-53.53537° or 53° 32′ 7″ west
UN/LOCODE
GL JGO
Open location code
98X86FW7+FV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 996562205
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3420635
Wiki­data ID
Q847668

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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”
  • Urdu: “قیکر تار سواک”
  • Uzbek: “Qeqertarsuaq”

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