Qaanaaq

Greenland
Qaanaaq, Greenland
Photo: Col. Lee-Volker Cox Public domain source

A remote Arctic village of low, colourful houses spread across bare tundra slopes above a cold fjord, with glacier-capped mountains behind — one of the world's northernmost permanently inhabited communities and a base for dogsled travel.

  • Population646
  • Nearest water3.7 km
  • Nearest mountain11.3 km

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