Moriusaq
Sign in to saveMoriusaq (also Moriussaq) is a closed settlement located in the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland. It is located just east of the mouth of Granville Fjord, approximately to the northwest of the Pituffik Space Base and to the southwest of Qaanaaq. Hunting and fishing resources in the area are plentiful, particularly fish, narwhals, seal, and polar bears.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Moriusaq
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Moriusaq Greenland 11 May 1979.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Moriusaq in 1979
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Sovereign state
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Avannaata
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012
- Settlement.population_total
- 0
- Settlement.timezone
- UTC-04
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Settlement.postal_code
- 3970 Pituffik
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 0
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- Moriusaq
- inception
- 1963-00-00
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- Facilities
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Moriusaq (also Moriussaq) is a closed settlement located in the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland. It is located just east of the mouth of Granville Fjord, approximately to the northwest of the Pituffik Space Base and to the southwest of Qaanaaq. Hunting and fishing resources in the area are plentiful, particularly fish, narwhals, seal, and polar bears.
== Facilities == Moriusaq used to offer its inhabitants direct TV and radio broadcasting, Internet access, private telephones, and a small power station for electricity, costing tax payers 2 million DKK (US$330,000) annually. Moriusaq had a small store, and the "recreation building" housed a school, a church, and even a small library. In 2007, the school closed and the last teacher left for Qaanaaq because there were no school-aged children living in the settlement.
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