Ataa
Sign in to saveAtaa was a settlement in the Disko Bay region of western Greenland. It was located on the eastern coast of Alluttoq Island, approximately to the north of Ilulissat and to the southeast of Qeqertaq.
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- Ataa
- Region
- Avannaata
- Country
- Kalaallit Nunaat
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- human settlement
- Country
- Greenland
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- Avannaata
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Ataa was a settlement in the Disko Bay region of western Greenland. It was located on the eastern coast of Alluttoq Island, approximately to the north of Ilulissat and to the southeast of Qeqertaq.
== History == The settlement was abandoned around 1960. It served as a backdrop for the 1997 Danish film ''Smilla's Sense of Snow'', an adaptation of Peter Høeg's 1992 novel ''Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow''.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ataa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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