Nuussuaq
Sign in to saveNuussuaq (old spelling: Nûgssuaq), formerly Kraulshavn, is a settlement in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is the only mainland settlement in the Upernavik Archipelago, located near the western tip of the Nuussuaq Peninsula, on the northern coast of Sugar Loaf Bay, an indentation of Baffin Bay.
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- Locality
- Nuussuaq
- Region
- Avannaata
- Country
- Kalaallit Nunaat
- Population
- 181
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Nuussuaq
- Settlement.other_name
- Kraulshavn
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Nuussuaq.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Wooden houses in Nuussuaq
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituent country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Avannaata
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1923
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 181
- Settlement.timezone1
- Western Greenland Time
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- −02:00
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Prehistory
- 20th century
- Geography
- Economy
- Transport
- Population
- References
Nuussuaq (old spelling: Nûgssuaq), formerly Kraulshavn, is a settlement in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is the only mainland settlement in the Upernavik Archipelago, located near the western tip of the Nuussuaq Peninsula, on the northern coast of Sugar Loaf Bay, an indentation of Baffin Bay.
The settlement was founded in 1923 as a trading station, growing in size during the post-war consolidation phase, when hunters from several small villages in the region of neighboring Inussulik Bay, Sugar Loaf Bay, and Tasiusaq Bay moved into the larger settlements such as Nuussuaq and Kullorsuaq further north in Melville Bay. Today Nuussuaq remains one of the most traditional hunting and fishing villages in Greenland, with a stable population. The settlement had 181 inhabitants in 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nuussuaq” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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