Oqaatsut
Sign in to saveOqaatsut (Danish: Hollandshuk or Rødebugt; Dutch: Roobay) is a settlement in Avannaata municipality, in western Greenland. It had 29 inhabitants in 2020. The modern name of the settlement is Kalaallisut for "Cormorants". The village is served by the communal all-purpose Pilersuisoq store.
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Place details
- Locality
- Oqaatsut
- Region
- GL.05
- Country
- Kalaallit Nunaat
- Population
- 29
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Oqaatsut
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Oqaatsut, Greenland.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Rødebugt seen in 2007
- 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.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
Key dates
- Inception
- 1701
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- rural area
- Official name
- Oqaatsut
- Country
- Greenland
- Located in
- Avannaata
- Population
- +27
- Area
- +0.61
- Elevation
- +1
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Image
- Oqaatsut Rodebay, Greenland (54067261286).jpg
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Article
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- Geography
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Oqaatsut (Danish: Hollandshuk or Rødebugt; Dutch: Roobay) is a settlement in Avannaata municipality, in western Greenland. It had 29 inhabitants in 2020. The modern name of the settlement is Kalaallisut for "Cormorants". The village is served by the communal all-purpose Pilersuisoq store.
==Geography== thumb|left|Icebergs from the Ilulissat Icefjord float north with the [[West Greenland Current towards Baffin Bay, to then return south along the coast of Baffin Island and Labrador Peninsula]] The settlement is located on a small peninsula jutting off the mainland into western Disko Bay (), 14 km north of Ilulissat. The settlement itself faces the shore of the small Akuliarusinnguaq bay, bounded to the north by Qeqertaq island, one of several islands with that name − 'qeqertaq' means 'island' in Greenlandic.