Etah
Etah is an abandoned settlement in the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland. It was a starting point of discovery expeditions to the North Pole and the landing site of the last migration of the Inuit from the Canadian Arctic.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Village
- Description: abandoned village in Greenland
- Also known as: “Etah, Greenland” and “Iita”
Etah
- Categories: abandoned hamlet and locality
- Location: Avannaata, Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
78.31318° or 78° 18′ 48″ north
Longitude
-72.60127° or 72° 36′ 5″ west
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
C7C9897X+7F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Etah” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Etah”
- Czech: “Etah”
- Danish: “Etah”
- Dutch: “Etah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايتا”
- French: “Etah”
- German: “Etah”
- Italian: “Etah”
- Japanese: “エタ”
- Kalaallisut: “Etah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Etah”
- Norwegian: “Etah”
- Portuguese: “Etah”
- Russian: “Иита”
- Russian: “Эта”
- Spanish: “Etah”
- Ukrainian: “Етах”
- Ukrainian: “Іта, Гренландія”
- Ukrainian: “Іта”
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