Uummannaq
Sign in to saveUummannaq is a town on Uummannaq Island in the Avannaata municipality, in central-western Greenland. With 1,407 inhabitants in 2020, it is the eighth-largest town in Greenland, and is home to the country's most northerly ferry terminal. Founded in 1763 as Omenak, the town is a hunting and fishing base, with a canning factory and a marble quarry. In 1932, the Universal Greenland-Filmexpedition with director Arnold Fanck released the film S.O.S. Eisberg near Uummannaq.
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Place details
- Locality
- Uummannaq
- Region
- Avannaata
- Country
- Kalaallit Nunaat
- Population
- 1,407
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Uummannaq
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Uummannaq.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Uummannaq in August 2008
- 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
Key dates
- Inception
- 1763
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality
- Official name
- Uummannaq
- Country
- Greenland
- Located in
- Avannaata
- Population
- +1359
- Area
- +10.29
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Capital of
- Uummannaq municipality
- Image
- Uummannaq.jpg
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Uummannaq is a town on Uummannaq Island in the Avannaata municipality, in central-western Greenland. With 1,407 inhabitants in 2020, it is the eighth-largest town in Greenland, and is home to the country's most northerly ferry terminal. Founded in 1763 as Omenak, the town is a hunting and fishing base, with a canning factory and a marble quarry. In 1932, the Universal Greenland-Filmexpedition with director Arnold Fanck released the film S.O.S. Eisberg near Uummannaq.
==Geography== thumb|left|Uummannaq (far left) dwarfed by Uummannaq mountain Uummannaq is located 590 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle on Uummannaq Island, located in the south-central arm of the Uummannaq Fjord. Uummannaq is also the general name given to the series of inlets north of the promontory at Niaqornat on the Nuussuaq Peninsula.