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Ilulissat, the Glossary

Ilulissat, formerly Jakobshavn or Jacobshaven, is the municipal seat and largest town of the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland, located approximately north of the Arctic Circle.^[1]

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Cities and towns in Greenland
Disko Bay
Populated coastal places in Greenland
Populated places established in 1741
Populated places of Arctic Greenland
Port cities and towns in Greenland

Administrative divisions of Greenland

Greenland is divided into five municipalities Avannaata, Kujalleq, Qeqertalik, Qeqqata, and Sermersooq as well as the large Northeast Greenland National Park which is unincorporated.

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Air Greenland

Air Greenland A/S (formerly named Grønlandsfly), also known as Greenlandair, is the flag carrier of Greenland, owned by the Greenlandic Government.

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Air Iceland Connect

Air Iceland Connect, formerly Flugfélag Íslands, was a regional airline with its head office at Reykjavík Airport in Reykjavík, Iceland.

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans.

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The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle.

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Arctic Ocean Conference

The inaugural Arctic Ocean Conference was held in Ilulissat (Greenland) on 27-29 May 2008.

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Arctic sea ice decline

Sea ice in the Arctic region has declined in recent decades in area and volume due to climate change.

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Arctic Umiaq Line

Arctic Umiaq Line A/S (AUL) or Arctic Umiaq is a passenger and freight shipping line in Greenland.

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Arktika 2007

Arktika 2007 (Российская полярная экспедиция "Арктика-2007") was a 2007 expedition in which Russia performed the first ever crewed descent to the ocean bottom at the North Pole, as part of research related to the 2001 Russian territorial claim, one of many territorial claims in the Arctic, made possible, in part, because of Arctic shrinkage.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Avannaata

Avannaata (lit) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality. Ilulissat and Avannaata are Disko Bay.

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Battle of Jakobshavn

The Battle of Jabobshavn also referred to as the Battle of Ilulissat, was a battle between Danish and Dutch ships over the control of Ilulissat (Then Jakobshavn) on 6 June 1739.

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Blue iceberg

A blue iceberg is visible after the ice from above the water melts, causing the smooth portion of ice from below the water to overturn.

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Borgen (TV series)

Borgen is a Danish political drama television series.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments).

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Continental shelf

A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.

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Danish Meteorological Institute

The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI; Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut) is the official Danish meteorological institute, administrated by the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities.

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Danish Realm

The Danish Realm, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, or simply Denmark, is a sovereign state and refers to the area over which the monarch of Denmark is head of state.

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Demographics of Greenland

This is a demography of the population of Greenland including population density, ethnicity, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Dog sled

A dog sled or dog sleigh is a sled pulled by one or more sled dogs used to travel over ice and through snow.

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Eskimology

Eskimology or Inuitology is a complex of humanities and sciences studying the languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of the speakers of Eskimo–Aleut languages and Inuit, Yupik and Aleut (or Unangam), sometimes collectively known as Eskimos, in historical and comparative context.

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Exploration

Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery.

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Faroe Islands

The Faroe or Faeroe Islands, or simply the Faroes (Føroyar,; Færøerne), are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Fredericia

Fredericia is a town located in Fredericia Municipality in the southeastern part of the Jutland peninsula in Denmark.

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Fuglafjørður

Fuglafjørður (Fuglefjord) is a village on Eysturoy's east coast in the Faroe Islands.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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The Greenlandic Football Championship (Isikkamik Arsaalluni Pissartanngorniunneq, GM, Grønlandsmesterskab i fodbold) is the premier men's football competition in Greenland.

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Hafnarfjörður

Hafnarfjörður, officially Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður, is a port town and municipality in Iceland, located about south of Reykjavík.

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Hans Island

Hans Island (Inuktitut and Tartupaluk,; Inuktitut syllabics: ᑕᕐᑐᐸᓗᒃ; Hans Ø; île Hans) is an island in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait in the high Arctic region, split between the Canadian territory of Nunavut and the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland.

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Harald Moltke

Harald Viggo Moltke (14 December 1871 – 24 June 1960) was a Danish painter, author and explorer.

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Iceland

Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.

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Ilimanaq

Ilimanaq, formerly Claushavn, is a settlement in Avannaata municipality in western Greenland. Ilulissat and Ilimanaq are Disko Bay, Populated places established in 1741, Populated places in Greenland and Populated places of Arctic Greenland.

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Ilulissat Art Museum

The Ilulissat Art Museum (Ilulissat Kunstmuseum) is an art museum in Ilulissat, Avannaata Municipality, Greenland.

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Ilulissat Icefjord

Ilulissat Icefjord (Ilulissat Kangerlua) is a fjord in western Greenland. Ilulissat and Ilulissat Icefjord are Disko Bay.

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Inuit

Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.

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Jacob Severin

Jacob Sørensen Severin (27 October 1691 – 21 March 1753) was a Danish merchant who held a trade monopoly on Greenland from 1733 to 1749.

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Jørgen Brønlund

Jørgen Brønlund (14 December 1877 – November 1907) was a Greenlandic polar explorer, educator, and catechist.

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Jørgen Brønlund Fjord

Jørgen Brønlund Fjord or Bronlund Fjord is a fjord in southern Peary Land, northern Greenland.

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Jens Rosing

Jens Christian Rosing (28 July 1925 – 24 May 2008) was a notable Greenlandic artist, author and storyteller.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Knud Rasmussen

Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (7 June 1879 – 21 December 1933) was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist.

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Knud Rasmussen's Museum

Ilulissat Museum is a museum dedicated to the famous Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen.

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List of cities and towns in Greenland

This is a list of cities and towns in Greenland as of 2021. Ilulissat and list of cities and towns in Greenland are cities and towns in Greenland.

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Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen

Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (15 January 1872 – 25 November 1907) was a Danish author, ethnologist, and explorer, from Ringkøbing.

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Minnesota State University, Mankato

Minnesota State University, Mankato (MNSU, MSU, or Minnesota State) is a public university in Mankato, Minnesota, United States.

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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne), published in America as Smilla's Sense of Snow, is a 1992 novel by Danish author Peter Høeg tracing the investigation into the suspicious death of a Greenlandic boy in Denmark.

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Nagdlunguaq-48

Nagdlunguak 1948 is a sports club from Greenland based in Ilulissat.

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NASA Earth Observatory

NASA Earth Observatory is an online publishing outlet for NASA which was created in 1999.

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Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Nuuk

Nuuk (Nuuk, formerly Godthåb) is the capital of and most populous city in Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Ilulissat and Nuuk are cities and towns in Greenland, Populated coastal places in Greenland, Populated places in Greenland and port cities and towns in Greenland.

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Oqaatsut

Oqaatsut (old spelling: Oqaitsut), formerly Rodebay or Rodebaai, is a settlement in Avannaata municipality, in western Greenland. Ilulissat and Oqaatsut are Disko Bay, Populated places in Greenland and Populated places of Arctic Greenland.

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Peary Land

Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean.

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Polar regions of Earth

The polar regions, also called the frigid zones or polar zones, of Earth are Earth's polar ice caps, the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles.

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Qeqertaq

Qeqertaq (pronounced: (according to the old spelling K'eĸertaĸ)) is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland, located on an island off the southern shore of the Nuussuaq Peninsula in an inlet of Sullorsuaq Strait. Ilulissat and Qeqertaq are Disko Bay, Populated places in Greenland and Populated places of Arctic Greenland.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Reykjavík Airport

Reykjavík Airport (Icelandic: Reykjavíkurflugvöllur) is the main domestic airport serving Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland, located about from the city centre.

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Ricky Enø Jørgensen

Ricky Enø Jørgensen (born 5 June 1989) is a Danish racing cyclist for Designa Køkken-Knudsgaard.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Saqqaq

Saqqaq (old spelling: Sarqaq) is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland. Ilulissat and Saqqaq are Disko Bay, Populated places in Greenland and Populated places of Arctic Greenland.

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Sermermiut

Sermermiut was an Inuit settlement in the Disko Bay, Greenland.

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Sisimiut

Sisimiut, formerly known as Holsteinsborg, is the capital and largest city of the Qeqqata municipality, the second-largest city in Greenland, and the largest Arctic city in North America. Ilulissat and Sisimiut are cities and towns in Greenland, Populated places in Greenland and Populated places of Arctic Greenland.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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Sovereign state

A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.

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Statistics Greenland

Statistics Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaanni Naatsorsueqqissaartarfik, Grønlands Statistik) is a central statistical organization in Greenland, operating under the auspices of the Government of Greenland, working in cooperation with the Ministry for Finance.

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Territorial claims in the Arctic

The Arctic consists of land, internal waters, territorial seas, exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and international waters above the Arctic Circle (66 degrees 33 minutes North latitude).

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Tourism in Greenland

Tourism in Greenland is a relatively young business area of the country.

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Town privileges

Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium.

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Tundra

In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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West Greenlandic

(), also known as West Greenlandic (vestgrønlandsk), is the primary language of Greenland and constitutes the Greenlandic language, spoken by the vast majority of the inhabitants of Greenland, as well as by thousands of Greenlandic Inuit in Denmark proper (in total, approximately 50,000 people).

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilulissat

Also known as History of Ilulissat, Ilulisat, Ilulissat, Greenland, Jacobshaven, Jacobshavn, Jakobshavn.

, NASA Earth Observatory, Northwest Passage, Norway, Nuuk, Oqaatsut, Peary Land, Polar regions of Earth, Qeqertaq, Reuters, Reykjavík Airport, Ricky Enø Jørgensen, Russia, Saqqaq, Sermermiut, Sisimiut, Sister city, Sovereign state, Statistics Greenland, Territorial claims in the Arctic, Tourism in Greenland, Town privileges, Tundra, UNESCO, United States, West Greenlandic, World Heritage Site.

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See also

Cities and towns in Greenland

Disko Bay

Populated coastal places in Greenland

Populated places established in 1741

Populated places of Arctic Greenland

Port cities and towns in Greenland

References