Nuussuaq
Nuussuaq, formerly Kraulshavn, is a settlement in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is the only mainland settlement in the Upernavik Archipelago, located near the western tip of the Nuussuaq Peninsula, on the northern coast of Sugar Loaf Bay, an indentation of Baffin Bay.
- Village with 181 residents
- …has the IATA airport code NSQ
- Description: human settlement
- Historically known as“Kraulshavn”“Nûgssuaq”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nuussuaq Heliport.
Nuussuaq
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Latitude
74.11111° or 74° 6′ 40″ north
Longitude
-57.06111° or 57° 3′ 40″ west
Open location code
C8644W6Q+CH
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OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Nuussuaq” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نوسواك”
- Basque: “Nuussuaq”
- Catalan: “Nuussuaq”
- Cebuano: “Nuussuaq”
- Czech: “Nuussuaq”
- Danish: “Kraulshavn”
- Danish: “Nûgssuaĸ”
- Danish: “Nuussuaq”
- Dutch: “Nuussuaq”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نوسواك”
- French: “Nuussuaq”
- Georgian: “ნუუსუაკი”
- German: “Nuussuaq”
- Inuktitut: “ᓅᔅᓱᐊᖅ”
- Irish: “Nuussuaq”
- Italian: “Nuussuaq”
- Kalaallisut: “Nuussuaq”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nuussuaq”
- Norwegian: “Nuussuaq”
- Polish: “Nuussuaq”
- Portuguese: “Nuussuaq”
- Russian: “Нууссуак”
- Spanish: “Nuussuaq”
- Swedish: “Nuussuaq”
- Ukrainian: “Нууссуак”
- Uzbek: “Nuussuaq”
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