
Also known as Christianshåb, Christianshaab
Qasigiannguit (), also known as Christianshåb, is a town located in western Greenland on the southeastern shore of Disko Bay in the Qeqertalik municipality. With 1,081 inhabitants in 2020, it is the thirteenth-largest town in Greenland. The main industry is shrimp and halibut fishing.
via Open-Meteo
Qasigiannguit (), also known as Christianshåb, is a town located in western Greenland on the southeastern shore of Disko Bay in the Qeqertalik municipality. With 1,081 inhabitants in 2020, it is the thirteenth-largest town in Greenland. The main industry is shrimp and halibut fishing.
== History == left|thumb|Portrait of Christian VI of Denmark|Christian VI by [[Johann Salomon Wahl who had Christianshåb named in his honour]] The settlement was founded as a trading post for Jacob Severin's company in 1734 and named Christianshaab in honour of King Christian VI of Denmark. The name was sometimes anglicized as '''Christian's Hope'''.
2 mapped locations
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
via Wikipedia infobox
via Wikidata · CC0
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).