Igaliku
Igaliku is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. The town was founded as Igaliko in 1783 by the trader and colonial administrator Anders Olsen and his Greenlandic wife, Tuperna.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 44 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Igaliko” and “伊奎利庫”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Garðar and Gardar Cathedral of Saint Nicholas.
Garðar
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garðar was the seat of the bishop in the Norse settlements in Greenland. It was the first Catholic diocese established in the Americas and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
Gardar Cathedral of Saint Nicholas
Archaeological site
Photo: Svickova, Public domain.
Garðar Cathedral, known formally as the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, was a Roman Catholic cathedral church located in Garðar, situated in Igaliku, Greenland.
Igaliku Heliport
Helipad
Igaliku Heliport is a heliport in Igaliku, a village in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. The heliport is considered a helistop, and is served by Air Greenland as part of a government contract.
Igaliku
- Categories: human settlement, rural area, and locality
- Location: Kujalleq, Southern Greenland, Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.9891° or 60° 59′ 21″ northLongitude
-45.421° or 45° 25′ 16″ westPopulation
44IATA airport code
QFXOpen location code
98GPXHQH+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 1928931258OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3423392Wikidata ID
Q980694
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Satellite Map
Discover Igaliku from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Uzbek—“Igaliku” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Igaliku”
- Chinese: “伊加利库”
- Chinese: “伊加利庫”
- Chinese: “伊加利科”
- Chinese: “伊奎利库”
- Czech: “Igaliko”
- Czech: “Igaliku”
- Danish: “Igaliko”
- Danish: “Igaliku”
- Dutch: “Igaliku”
- French: “Igaliku”
- Galician: “Igaliku”
- Georgian: “იგალიკუ”
- German: “Igaliku”
- Hebrew: “איגליקו”
- Icelandic: “Igaliku”
- Inuktitut: “ᐃᒐᓕᑯ”
- Italian: “Igaliku”
- Japanese: “イガリク”
- Kalaallisut: “Igaliko”
- Kalaallisut: “Igaliku”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Igaliku”
- Norwegian: “Igaliku”
- Polish: “Igaliku”
- Portuguese: “Igaliku”
- Russian: “Игалику”
- Spanish: “Igaliku”
- Swedish: “Igaliku”
- Uzbek: “Igaliku”
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