Greenland
Northern Greenland
Avannaata

Upernavik

Upernavik is home to the largest bird cliff, Apparsuit, and unique wildlife. Upernavik’s main industry is fishing. Local settlements are spread across the 450km coastline.
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  • Type: Town with 1,130 residents
  • Description: town in Greenland
  • Also known as: “Summer Place”, “Upernivik”, and “Uppernavik”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Upernavik Airport and Upernavik Museum.

Aerodrome
Photo: Slaunger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an located 0.5 NM northeast of Upernavik, a town in Avannaata municipality in northwestern , capable of serving STOL aircraft.

Museum
Photo: HelgeRieder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum in Upernavik, a town in northwestern . It is the oldest museum in Greenland, holding an extensive collection of local art.

Church
Photo: Slaunger, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Upernavik

Latitude
72.7847° or 72° 47′ 5″ north
Longitude
-56.147° or 56° 8′ 49″ west
Population
1,130
IATA airport code
JUV
United Nations Location Code
GL JUV
Open location code
C845QVM3+V6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 338192478
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3418910
Wiki­data ID
Q303160
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Upernavik” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “آبرناويك”
  • Asturian: “Upernavik”
  • Belarusian: “Упернавік”
  • Belarusian: “Упэрнавік”
  • Bulgarian: “Упернавик”
  • Catalan: “Upernavik”
  • Cebuano: “Upernavik”
  • Chinese: “乌佩纳维克”
  • Czech: “Upernavik”
  • Danish: “Upernavik”
  • Dutch: “Upernavik”
  • Eastern Canadian Inuktitut: “ᐅᐱᕐᓇᕕᒃ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “آبرناويك”
  • Esperanto: “Upernavik”
  • Finnish: “Upernavik”
  • French: “Upernavik”
  • Georgian: “უპერნავიკი”
  • German: “Upernavik”
  • Hebrew: “אופרנאוויק”
  • Hungarian: “Upernavik”
  • Icelandic: “Upernavik”
  • Iloko: “Upernavik”
  • Indonesian: “Upernavik”
  • Italian: “Upernavik”
  • Japanese: “ウペルナビク”
  • Kalaallisut: “Upernavik”
  • Kalaallisut: “Upernaviup kommunea”
  • Khmer: “អ៊ុយព័រណាវីក”
  • Komi: “Упернавик”
  • Korean: “우페르나비크”
  • Lithuanian: “Upernavikas”
  • Macedonian: “Упернавик”
  • Moksha: “Упэрнавик”
  • Northern Frisian: “Upernavik”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Upernavik”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Upernavik”
  • Norwegian: “Upernavik”
  • Panjabi: “ਊਪੈਨਾਵੀਕ”
  • Polish: “Upernavik”
  • Portuguese: “Upernavik”
  • Russian: “Упернавик”
  • Samogitian: “Upernaviks”
  • Serbian: “Упернавик”
  • Sinhala: “උපර්නවික්, ග්‍රීන්ලන්තය”
  • Spanish: “Upernavik”
  • Swedish: “Upernavik”
  • Turkish: “Upernavik”
  • Ukrainian: “Упернавік”
  • Uzbek: “Upernavik”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوپیناویک”
  • “Upernaviks”

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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 “Upernavik”. Photo: Slaunger, CC BY-SA 4.0.