Kullorsuaq
Kullorsuaq is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is the northernmost settlement in the Upernavik Archipelago, located on Kullorsuaq Island at the southern end of Melville Bay, itself part of the larger Baffin Bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 436 residents
- Description: settlement in Greenland
- Also known as: “Kuvdlorssuak”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kullorsuaq Heliport and Devils Thumb.
Kullorsuaq Heliport
Helipad
Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kullorsuaq Heliport is a heliport in Kullorsuaq, a village in the Upernavik Archipelago of Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. The heliport is considered a helistop, and is served by Air Greenland as part of a government contract.
Devils Thumb
Peak
Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Devil's Thumb is a pinnacle-shaped, 546 m mountain in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Devils Thumb is situated 3 km northeast of Kullorsuaq.
Kullorsuaq
- Categories: human settlement, rural area, and locality
- Location: Avannaata, Greenland, North America
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Latitude
74.57907° or 74° 34′ 45″ northLongitude
-57.21982° or 57° 13′ 11″ westPopulation
436IATA airport code
KHQUnited Nations Location Code
GL KULOpen location code
C864HQHJ+J3OpenStreetMap ID
node 2049649020OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Uzbek—“Kullorsuaq” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Kullorsuaq”
- Catalan: “Kullorsuaq”
- Cebuano: “Kullorsuaq”
- Czech: “Kullorsuaq”
- Danish: “Djævlens Tommelfinger”
- Danish: “Kullorsuaq”
- Danish: “Kuvdlorssuaq”
- Dutch: “Kullorsuaq”
- French: “Kullorsuaq”
- Georgian: “კულორსუაკი”
- German: “Kullorsuaq”
- Indonesian: “Kullorsuaq”
- Irish: “Kullorsuaq”
- Italian: “Kullorsuaq”
- Japanese: “クッロルシュアク”
- Kalaallisut: “Kullorsuaq”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kullorsuaq”
- Norwegian: “Kullorsuaq”
- Piemontese: “Kullorsuaq”
- Polish: “Kullorsuaq”
- Portuguese: “Kullorsuaq”
- Russian: “Куллорсуак”
- Sinhala: “කුලෝර්සුවාක්, ග්රීන්ලන්තය”
- Spanish: “Kullorsuaq”
- Swedish: “Kullorsuaq”
- Ukrainian: “Куллорсуак”
- Uzbek: “Kullorsuaq”
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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 “Kullorsuaq”. Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.