Siorapaluk
Sign in to saveSiorapaluk (West Greenlandic) or Hiurapaluk (Polar Inuit) is a settlement in the Qaanaaq area of the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland. The settlement is located in the northern shore of the Siorapaluup Kangerlua (Robertson Fjord). It has a population of 43 who speak the Inuktun language of the Polar Inuit as well as the Kalaallisut dialect of Greenlandic. Many of the inhabitants are direct descendants of the last migration of Inuit from Canada in the 20th century.
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Place details
- Locality
- Siorapaluk
- Region
- GL.05
- Country
- Kalaallit Nunaat
- Population
- 43
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Siorapaluk
- Settlement.other_name
- Hiurapaluk
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Siorapaluk.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Siorapaluk
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- yes
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Greenland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Sovereign State
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous territory
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Avannaata
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2025
- Settlement.population_total
- 34
- Settlement.timezone1
- Western Greenland Time
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- −02:00
- Settlement.timezone1_DST
- Western Greenland Summer Time
- Settlement.utc_offset1_DST
- −01:00
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- rural area
- Country
- Greenland
- Located in
- Avannaata
- Population
- 42
- Area
- 0.2
- Elevation
- 14
- Image
- Siorapaluk.jpg
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- Siorapaluk
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Climate
- Hunting
- Infrastructure
- Transport
- Population
- References
Siorapaluk (West Greenlandic) or Hiurapaluk (Polar Inuit) is a settlement in the Qaanaaq area of the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland. The settlement is located in the northern shore of the Siorapaluup Kangerlua (Robertson Fjord). It has a population of 43 who speak the Inuktun language of the Polar Inuit as well as the Kalaallisut dialect of Greenlandic. Many of the inhabitants are direct descendants of the last migration of Inuit from Canada in the 20th century.
Siorapaluk is the northernmost inhabited public settlement in Greenland, and one of the northernmost such settlements in the world, surpassed only by a few villages and Longyearbyen in Svalbard. It is also the world's northernmost place inhabited by natives.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Siorapaluk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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