Aasiaat Airport
Aasiaat Airport is an airport located in the Disko Bay, 1 NM northeast of Aasiaat, a town in the Qeqertalik municipality in western Greenland. It can serve STOL aircraft, although there is no aircraft deicing equipment at the airport, which is costly and problematic in Greenlandic winter.- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Aasiaat, Greenland
- Also known as: “BGAA”, “JEG”, and “Mittarfik Aasiaat”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aasiaat Museum.
Aasiaat Museum
Museum
The Aasiaat Museum is a museum in Aasiaat, Qeqertalik Municipality, Greenland, based in the former colonial administrator's residence. The museum's displays are based on the cultural history of Aasiaat, and a variety of special art exhibitions.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aasiaat.
Aasiaat
Photo: Vaido Otsar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aasiaat is a town in Western Greenland with a population of 3,069 in 2020, making it the fourth largest settlement in Greenland.
Aasiaat Airport
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Qeqertalik, Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
68.7219° or 68° 43′ 19″ northLongitude
-52.78437° or 52° 47′ 4″ westElevation
43 metres (141 feet)Operator
MittarfeqarfiitIATA airport code
JEGICAO airport code
BGAAOpen location code
98W9P6C8+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
way 181362579OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
6295694Wikidata ID
Q2983335
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Aasiaat Airport” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار آسيات”
- Cebuano: “Aasiaat”
- Cebuano: “Egedesminde (tugpahanan sa Greenland)”
- Cebuano: “Egedesminde”
- Chinese: “亞西亞特機場”
- Czech: “Letiště Aasiaat”
- Danish: “Aasiaat Lufthavn”
- French: “aéroport d’Aasiaat”
- French: “Aéroport d’Aasiaat”
- Galician: “Aeroporto Aasiaat”
- German: “Flughafen Aasiaat”
- Indonesian: “BGAA”
- Indonesian: “JEG”
- Italian: “aeroporto di Aasiaat”
- Japanese: “アシアート空港”
- Latvian: “Āsiātas lidosta”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Aasiaat”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aasiaat lufthavn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “BGAA”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “JEG”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aasiaat lufthamn”
- Norwegian: “Aasiaat lufthavn”
- Persian: “BGAA”
- Persian: “JEG”
- Persian: “فرودگاه آسیات”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Aasiaat”
- Portuguese: “Aeroporto de Aasiaat”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Aasiaat”
- Russian: “Аасиаат”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto Aasiaat”
- Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Aasiaat”
- Swedish: “Aasiaat Airport”
- Swedish: “Aasiaat”
- Swedish: “Egedesminde”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи осиот”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Aasiaat”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mittarfik - Lufthavn and Iperarsuaq Kangilleq.
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