Qaarsut
Qaarsut is a settlement in Avannaata municipality, in northwestern Greenland. It is situated on the northeastern shore of the Nuussuaq Peninsula. It had 172 inhabitants in 2025.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Oiving, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 174 residents
- Description: place in Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark
- Also known as: “Kaersut”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Qaarsut Airport.
Qaarsut Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Qaarsut Airport is an airport in Qaarsut, a settlement on the Nuussuaq Peninsula in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is equipped with a gravel runway, capable of serving STOL aircraft of Air Greenland in all seasons.
Qaarsut
- Categories: human settlement, rural area, and locality
- Location: Avannaata, Greenland, North America
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Latitude
70.73095° or 70° 43′ 51″ northLongitude
-52.63797° or 52° 38′ 17″ westPopulation
174Elevation
76 metres (249 feet)IATA airport code
JQAUnited Nations Location Code
GL JQAOpen location code
C829P9J6+9ROpenStreetMap ID
node 2051281124OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3420937Wikidata ID
Q205781
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Qaarsut” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كارسوت”
- Basque: “Qaarsut”
- Bulgarian: “Каарсут”
- Cebuano: “Qaarsut”
- Chinese: “卡修特”
- Czech: “Qaarsut”
- Danish: “Qaarsut”
- Danish: “Qaersut”
- Dutch: “Qaarsut”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كارسوت”
- French: “Qaarsut”
- Georgian: “კაარსუტი”
- German: “Qaarsut”
- Inuktitut: “ᖄᕐᓱᑦ”
- Irish: “Qaarsut”
- Italian: “Qaarsut”
- Japanese: “カールシュト”
- Kalaallisut: “Qaarsut”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qaarsut”
- Norwegian: “Qaarsut”
- Polish: “Qaarsut”
- Portuguese: “Qaarsut”
- Russian: “Каарсут”
- Spanish: “Qaarsut”
- Swedish: “Qaarsut”
- Uzbek: “Qaarsut”
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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 “Qaarsut”. Photo: Oiving, Public domain.