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Qeqertaq

Qeqertaq is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in western , located on an island off the southern shore of the in an inlet of . Founded in 1830 as Øen, the settlement had 117 inhabitants in 2024.
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Photo: Qeqertaq, CC BY 3.0.
  • Type: Village with 130 residents
  • Description: place in Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark
  • Also known as: “Kekertak”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Qeqertaq Heliport.

Helipad
is a heliport in Qeqertaq, a village on an island off the shore of the in Avannaata municipality in western . The heliport is considered a helistop, and is served by Air Greenland as part of a government contract.

Qeqertaq

Latitude
69.99722° or 69° 59′ 50″ north
Longitude
-51.30278° or 51° 18′ 10″ west
Population
130
IATA airport code
PQT
Open location code
98XCXMWW+VV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2051281173
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3420670
Wiki­data ID
Q2086887
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Qeqertaq” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ققرتاق”
  • Basque: “Qeqertaq”
  • Cebuano: “Qeqertaq”
  • Chinese: “凯凯赫塔克”
  • Czech: “Qeqertaq”
  • Danish: “Qeqertaq”
  • Dutch: “Qeqertaq”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ققرتاق”
  • French: “Qeqertaq”
  • Georgian: “კეკერტაკი”
  • German: “Qeqertaq”
  • Irish: “Qeqertaq”
  • Italian: “Qeqertaq”
  • Japanese: “ケケルタク”
  • Kalaallisut: “Qeqertaq”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qeqertaq”
  • Norwegian: “Qeqertaq”
  • Persian: “ققرتاق”
  • Polish: “Qeqertaq”
  • Portuguese: “Øen”
  • Portuguese: “Qeqertaq”
  • Russian: “Кекертак”
  • Spanish: “Oen”
  • Spanish: “Øen”
  • Spanish: “Qeqertaq”
  • Swedish: “Qeqertaq”
  • Turkish: “Qeqertaq”
  • Uzbek: “Qeqertaq”

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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 “Qeqertaq”. Photo: Qeqertaq, CC BY 3.0.