Grise Fiord

Grise Fiord is a small Inuit village at the southern tip of Ellesmere Island in the of Canada. It is the largest community on the island, and Canada's northernmost public community. There is a school, a church and a store.
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  • Type: Village with 144 residents
  • Description: hamlet in Nunavut, Canada
  • Also known as: “Aujuittuq”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grise Fiord Airport.

Aerodrome
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is located in Grise Fiord, , Canada, and is operated by the Government of Nunavut. The only building at this airport is the and the companies that operate there are Canadian North.

Grise Fiord

Latitude
76.4188° or 76° 25′ 8″ north
Longitude
-82.9015° or 82° 54′ 6″ west
Population
144
Elevation
247 metres (810 feet)
IATA airport code
YGZ
United Nations Location Code
CA YGZ
Open location code
C68VC39X+G9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 107350416
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5967230
Wiki­data ID
Q276115
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Grise Fiord” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Grise Fiord”
  • Bengali: “গ্রিজ ফিওর্ড”
  • Catalan: “Aujuittuq”
  • Catalan: “Ausuittuq”
  • Catalan: “Grise Fiord”
  • Cebuano: “Grise Fiord”
  • Chinese: “格里斯菲奥德”
  • Croatian: “Aujuittuq”
  • Croatian: “Grise Fiord”
  • Danish: “Grise Fiord”
  • Dutch: “Grise Fiord”
  • Esperanto: “P.J. Akeeagok”
  • Finnish: “Aujuittuq”
  • Finnish: “Grise Fiord”
  • Finnish: “Grise Fjord”
  • French: “Aujuittuq”
  • French: “Grise Fiord”
  • Galician: “Aujuittuq”
  • Galician: “Grise Fiord”
  • German: “Aujuittuq”
  • German: “Grise Fiord”
  • Greek: “Γκράιζ Φιόρντ”
  • Greek: “Γκριζ Φιόρντ”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્રાઈસ ફિઓર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “גרייס פיורד”
  • Hebrew: “גריס פיורד”
  • Indonesian: “Grise Fiord”
  • Interlingua: “Grise Fiord”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐊᐅᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ”
  • Irish: “Aujuittuq”
  • Italian: “Grise Fiord”
  • Japanese: “グリーズフィヨルド”
  • Japanese: “グリスフィヨルド”
  • Kalaallisut: “Grise Fiord”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ರೈಸ್ ಫಿಯೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Latvian: “Grise Fiorda”
  • Latvian: “Grisfjorda”
  • Lithuanian: “Grise Fiordas”
  • Lithuanian: “Grise Fjordas”
  • Malay: “Grise Fiord”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്രീസ് ഫിയോർഡ്”
  • Marathi: “ग्राइस फिओर्ड”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Grise Fiord”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Grisefjorden”
  • Norwegian: “Grise Fiord”
  • Papiamento: “Grise Fiord”
  • Persian: “گریس فیورد”
  • Polish: “Grise Fiord”
  • Portuguese: “Grise Fiord”
  • Russian: “Грис-Фьорд”
  • Serbian: “Грис Фјорд”
  • Sinhala: “ග්‍රයිස් ෆියර්ඩ්”
  • Spanish: “Grise Fiord”
  • Swedish: “Grise Fiord”
  • Tamil: “கிறிஸ் பிஆர்ட்”
  • Telugu: “గ్రీస్ ఫిఆర్ద్”
  • Thai: “กริเซฟอร์ด”
  • Turkish: “Grise Fiord”
  • Ukrainian: “Грис-Фіорд”
  • Urdu: “گریس فیورڈ”
  • Vietnamese: “Grise Fiord”
  • “P.J. Akeeagok”

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