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Nuussuaq

Nuussuaq, formerly Kraulshavn, is a settlement in Avannaata municipality in northwestern . It is the only mainland settlement in the Upernavik Archipelago, located near the western tip of the , on the northern coast of , an indentation of Baffin Bay.
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  • Type: Village with 181 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Historically known as: “Kraulshavn” and “Nûgssuaq”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nuussuaq Heliport.

Helipad
Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a heliport in Nuussuaq, a village in the Upernavik Archipelago of Avannaata municipality in northwestern . The heliport is considered a helistop, and is served by Air Greenland as part of a government contract.

Nuussuaq

Latitude
74.11111° or 74° 6′ 40″ north
Longitude
-57.06111° or 57° 3′ 40″ west
Population
181
IATA airport code
NSQ
Open location code
C8644W6Q+CH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2049649027
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3422300
Wiki­data ID
Q579419
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Satellite Map

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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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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 “Nuussuaq”. Photo: Algkalv, CC BY-SA 3.0.