Hvalsey
Hvalsey is located near Qaqortoq, Greenland and is the site of Greenland's largest, best-preserved Norse ruins in the area known as the Eastern Settlement. In 2017, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and part of the Kujataa Greenland site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Hvalsey Church ruin
Archaeological site
Photo: Visit Greenland, CC BY 2.0.
Hvalsey Church was a Catholic church in the abandoned Greenlandic Norse settlement of Hvalsey. The best preserved Norse ruins in Greenland, the church was also the location of the last written record of the Greenlandic Norse, a wedding in September 1408.
Hvalsey
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: historic norse settlement in Greenland
- Categories: rural area, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Greenland, North America
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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”
- 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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