Hvalsey

Hvalseyjarfjord is located at the back of , and is the site of Greenland's largest, best-preserved Norse ruins in the area known as the Eastern Settlement.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hvalsey Church ruin.

Archaeological site
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Hvalsey Church was a Catholic church at the abandoned Greenlandic Norse homestead of Hvalseyjarfjord. The best preserved Norse ruins in , the church was also the location of the last written record of the Greenlandic Norse, a wedding in September 1408.

Hvalsey

Latitude
60.82861° or 60° 49′ 43″ north
Longitude
-45.78278° or 45° 46′ 58″ west
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
Open location code
98GPR6H8+CV
Geo­Names ID
9855417
Wiki­data ID
Q2486782
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Hvalsey” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Hvalsey”
  • Basque: “Qaqortukulooq”
  • Catalan: “Hvalsey”
  • Cebuano: “Hvalsey (arkiyolohiyang dapit)”
  • Cebuano: “Hvalsey”
  • Danish: “Hvalsey”
  • Dutch: “Hvalsey”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة الحوت”
  • French: “Hvalsey”
  • German: “Hvalsey”
  • Icelandic: “Hvalsey”
  • Icelandic: “Hvalseyjarfjörður”
  • Indonesian: “Hvalsey”
  • Italian: “Hvalsey”
  • Italian: “Qaqortukukooq”
  • Japanese: “フヴァルセー”
  • Latvian: “Valsaja”
  • Latvian: “Valseja”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hvalsey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Qaqortukukooq”
  • Norwegian: “Hvalsey”
  • Polish: “Hvalsey”
  • Portuguese: “Hvalsey”
  • Romanian: “Hvalsey”
  • Russian: “Хвальсей”
  • Spanish: “Hvalsey”
  • Swedish: “Hvalsey”

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