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    Qaanaaq (Greenlandic pronunciation: [qaːnɑːq]), formerly known as Thule or New Thule, is the main town in the northern part of the Avannaata municipality...
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    Qaanaaq Airport (Greenlandic: Mittarfik Qaanaaq) (IATA: NAQ, ICAO: BGQQ) is an airport located 1.9 NM (3.5 km; 2.2 mi) northwest of Qaanaaq, a settlement...
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    entirely contained within the municipality. In the far northwest near Qaanaaq and Siorapaluk, the municipal shores extend into Nares Strait, which separates...
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    Edward Island Denmark Greenland Pituffik (Thule) (former settlement), Qaanaaq (present settlement) United Kingdom Bermuda Principal cities: New York...
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    (West Greenlandic) or Hiurapaluk (Polar Inuit) is a settlement in the Qaanaaq area of the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland. The settlement...
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    Antarctica El Chaltén, Argentina (72°53′W corresponding to UTC−04:51) Qaanaaq, Greenland (69°13′W corresponding to UTC−04:37) Buenos Aires, Argentina...
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    Base. The former inhabitants were relocated to the present-day town of Qaanaaq. The relocation and the fallout from the 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash...
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    traditionally used only by the people of Canada's Central Arctic and the Qaanaaq area of Greenland. Other Inuit tended to use snow to insulate their houses...
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    northernmost settlements in Qaanaaq and the surrounding villages in northwestern Greenland. Apart from the town of Qaanaaq, Inuktun is also spoken in the...
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    Narsaq Uummannaq Paamiut Nanortalik Qasigiannguit Upernavik Qeqertarsuaq Qaanaaq Kangaatsiaq Kangerlussuaq Kullorsuaq Ittoqqortoormiit Kangaamiut There...
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  • 78°N 59°W / 78°N 59°W / 78; -59 Qaanaaq Municipality was the only municipality in the county of North Greenland (Avannaa). It is now part of the municipality...
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  • Qeqertat is a small village in the Qaanaaq area of the Avannaata municipality, in northern Greenland. It is located on the Harvard islands, in the inner...
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    Canada at a cost of many lives. Inhabitants of Pituffik, later relocated to Qaanaaq, are partially descended from this last group of Arctic migrants to Greenland...
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    trading post in north-western Greenland, which he named "Thule" (later Qaanaaq). Thule formerly gave its name to the northernmost United States Air Force...
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    Infrasound arrays at monitoring station in Qaanaaq, Greenland....
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    States' Thule Air Base, with its residents relocated to Qaanaaq. Established in 1953, Qaanaaq is the largest Inughuit settlement. 1968 Thule Air Base...
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    Water Polynya enables the existence of Greenland's northernmost town, Qaanaaq. When submarines of the U.S. Navy made expeditions to the North Pole in...
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    (currently in Qeqertalik) Ilulissat Municipality (currently in Avannaata) Qaanaaq Municipality (currently in Avannaata) Qasigiannguit Municipality (currently...
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    1969 Western Greenland – Ilulissat to Qaanaaq by sled 1969 71st Italian expedition to the North Pole 1970 Qaanaaq to Cape Columbia 1970 Western Greenland...
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    Camp Century Part of Project Iceworm Near Qaanaaq in Greenland Plan of base Camp Century Coordinates 77°10′00″N 61°08′00″W / 77.1667°N 61.1333°W /...
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    (198 km [123 mi], pop. 62); Siorapaluk, Greenland (349 km [217 mi], pop. 68); and Qaanaaq, Greenland (379 km [235 mi], pop. 656). As determined by field investigations...
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    Ivalo Mathilda. Her third name, Ivalo, is Greenlandic. It stems from the Qaanaaq region where her father patrolled with the Sirius Dog Sled Patrol and means...
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    Greenland, until 31 December 2008. The county seat was at the main settlement, Qaanaaq. It was one of the least-densely-populated administrative divisions in...
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    Qaanaaq, Ilulissat, Kangerlussuaq, Nuuk and Qaqortoq Tasiilaq and Kulusuk on the east coast Except Pituffik Space Base Some places, such as Qaanaaq (69°13′W...
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    people speak East Greenlandic (Tunumiisut) and nearly 1,000 around northern Qaanaaq speak Inuktun. North Greenlandic is closer to the Inuit languages of Canada...
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  • Municipality Northeast Greenland National Park (southern part) (unincorporated) Qaanaaq Municipality Thule Air Base (Pituffik) (unincorporated) Wikimedia Commons...
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  • The Harvard Islands (Danish: Harward Øer) are an island group east of Qaanaaq in the Avannaata Municipality, northwestern Greenland. They are located...
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    to a newly constructed, modern village 60 miles (97 km) north, known as Qaanaaq, or "New Thule". In a Danish Supreme Court judgment of 28 November 2003...
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  • appellation "Thule" originates from the location of Thule (relocated and renamed Qaanaaq in 1953) in northwest Greenland, facing Canada, where the archaeological...
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    Belzebub II departed Newfoundland following the coast of Greenland to Qaanaaq before tracking the sea ice to Grise Fiord, Canada's most northern community...
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