Qaarsut Airport
Qaarsut Airport is an airport in Qaarsut, a settlement on the Nuussuaq Peninsula in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is equipped with a gravel runway, capable of serving STOL aircraft of Air Greenland in all seasons.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Qaarsut
Village
Photo: Oiving, Public domain.
Qaarsut is a settlement in Avannaata municipality, in northwestern Greenland. It is situated on the northeastern shore of the Nuussuaq Peninsula. It had 172 inhabitants in 2025.
Qaarsut Airport
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Avannaata, Greenland, North America
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Latitude
70.73434° or 70° 44′ 4″ northLongitude
-52.69741° or 52° 41′ 51″ westElevation
96 metres (315 feet)Operator
MittarfeqarfiitIATA airport code
JQAICAO airport code
BGUQOpen location code
C829P8M3+P2OpenStreetMap ID
way 933025005OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
7668099Wikidata 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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