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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- Locality
- Uummannaq
- Region
- Avannaata
- Country
- Kalaallit Nunaat
- Population
- 1,407
- Timezone
- America/Nuuk
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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
- 1763
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2025
- Settlement.population_total
- 1391
- Settlement.timezone1
- Western Greenland Time
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- −02:00
- Settlement.timezone1_DST
- Western Greenland Summer Time
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Uummannaq
- Population
- 1359
- Area
- 10.29
- Image
- Uummannaq.jpg
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- Commons category
- Uummannaq
- postal code
- 3961
- native label
- Uummannaq
- inception
- 1763-00-00
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Travel guide
Get in
Airgreenland flies from Ilulissat and Qaanaaq to the nearby airport at Qaarsut. From there a helicopter will take you to the heliport in Uummannaq. The easiest way to get to Uummannaq is to take a flight from Kangerlussuaq to Qaarsut with a layover in either Aasiaat or Ilulissat. Then take the 10-minute helicopter flight to Uummannaq, in the winter the journey from Qaarsut is easy by car, but by air is faster.
Get around
The city can be traversed on foot. The surrounding region can in the summer be visited by boat, and in winter by dogsled or snowmobile. Dog sleds are used during the winter months to travel around the city, to fishing sites, and to the nearby settlements.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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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.
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