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Kangerlussuaq

Kangerlussuaq is a settlement on the west coast of near the end of a fjord of the same name. Its Danish name is Søndre Strømfjord, and until the early 1990s was home to a U.S. military base known as Bluie West Eight.
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  • Type: Village with 508 residents
  • Description: settlement in Greenland
  • Also known as: “Søndre Strømfjord” and “Sondrestrom”
  • Postal code: 3910

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kangerlussuaq Airport and Kangerlussuaq Museum.

Aerodrome
Photo: Chmee2, CC BY 3.0.
is an airport in Kangerlussuaq, a settlement in the municipality in central-western . It was originally built as Sondrestrom Air Base in 1941 and began to serve a civilian role in the 1950s which continued after the closure of the base in 1992.

Museum
Photo: Kenny McFly, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hotel
Photo: Grete Howard, CC BY 3.0.
is a hotel in Kangerlussuaq, .

Kangerlussuaq

Latitude
67.0087° or 67° 0′ 31″ north
Longitude
-50.6913° or 50° 41′ 29″ west
Population
508
Elevation
242 metres (794 feet)
IATA airport code
SFJ
United Nations Location Codes
GL SFJ and GL KAN
Open location code
98VF2855+FF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 248059429
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3419714
Wiki­data ID
Q1007098
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Kangerlussuaq” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كانجرلوسواك”
  • Arabic: “كانغرلوسواك”
  • Arabic: “کانجرلوسواك”
  • Arabic: “کانجرلوسواک”
  • Arabic: “کانغرلوسواك”
  • Catalan: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Catalan: “Søndre Strømfjord”
  • Cebuano: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Chinese: “南斯特倫菲尤爾”
  • Chinese: “康克魯斯瓦格”
  • Chinese: “康埃卢苏阿克”
  • Czech: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Danish: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Danish: “Søndre Strømfjord”
  • Dutch: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Estonian: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Finnish: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • French: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Georgian: “კანგერლუსუაკი”
  • German: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • German: “Soendre Stroemfjord”
  • German: “Sondre Stromfjord”
  • German: “Söndre Strömfjord”
  • German: “Søndre Strømfjord”
  • German: “Kangerdlugssuaq” (historical)
  • Hungarian: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Icelandic: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Irish: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Italian: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Japanese: “カンゲルルススアーク”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Kalaallisut: “Søndre Strømfjord”
  • Komi: “Кангерлуссуак”
  • Korean: “칸게를루수악”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Søndre Strømfjord”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Norwegian: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Great Feord”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Grēat Feord”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Great Fjord”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Grēat Fjord”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Micel Feord”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Micel Fjord”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sondre Stromfjord”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Söndre Strömfjord”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Søndre Strømfjord”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūþern Strēamflēot”
  • Persian: “کانگرلوسواک”
  • Polish: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Polish: “Sondre Stromfjord”
  • Polish: “Søndre Strømfjord”
  • Portuguese: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Portuguese: “Søndre Strømfjord”
  • Russian: “Кангерлуссуак”
  • Sinhala: “කැන්ගර්ලුසුවාක්, ග්‍රීන්ලන්තය”
  • Spanish: “Bluie West Eight”
  • Spanish: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Spanish: “Sondre Stromfjord”
  • Spanish: “Sondre Strømfjord”
  • Spanish: “Søndre Strømfjord”
  • Swedish: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Swedish: “Sondre Stromfjord”
  • Swedish: “Söndre Strömfjord”
  • Swedish: “Søndre Strømfjord”
  • Turkish: “Kangerlussuaq”
  • Ukrainian: “Канґерлуссуак”
  • Uzbek: “Kangerlussuaq”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kangerlussuaq”. Photo: Elgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.