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Qaarsut Airport

Qaarsut Airport is an in , a settlement on the in Avannaata municipality in northwestern . It is equipped with a gravel runway, capable of serving STOL aircraft of Air Greenland in all seasons.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in Avannaata, Greenland
  • Also known as: “BGUQ”, “JQA”, and “Mittarfik Qaarsut”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Qaarsut.

Village
Photo: Oiving, Public domain.
is a settlement in Avannaata municipality, in northwestern . It is situated on the northeastern shore of the . It had 172 inhabitants in 2025.

Qaarsut Airport

Latitude
70.73434° or 70° 44′ 4″ north
Longitude
-52.69741° or 52° 41′ 51″ west
Elevation
96 metres (315 feet)
Operator
Mittarfeqarfiit
IATA airport code
JQA
ICAO airport code
BGUQ
Open location code
C829P8M3+P2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 933025005
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
7668099
Wiki­data ID
Q3497799
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Tajik—“Qaarsut Airport” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مطار كارسوت”
  • Basque: “Qaarsuteko aireportua”
  • Cebuano: “Qaarsut Airport”
  • Chinese: “卡修特機場”
  • Danish: “Qaarsut Lufthavn”
  • German: “Flughafen Qaarsut”
  • Indonesian: “BGUQ”
  • Indonesian: “JQA”
  • Japanese: “カールシュト空港”
  • Latvian: “Kārsutas lidosta”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Qaarsut”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qaarsut lufthavn”
  • Norwegian: “Qaarsut lufthavn”
  • Persian: “BGUQ”
  • Persian: “JQA”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه قارسوت”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه کارسوت”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Qaarsut”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto de Qaarsut”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Qaarsut”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto de Qaarsut”
  • Swedish: “Qaarsut Airport”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи корсут”

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