Qaanaaq Tourist Information
Qaanaaq is the world's northernmost municipality and the settlement of Siorapaluk is the northernmost inhabited place on Earth. Owing to the short distance to the North American continent, the region has been the gateway to Greenland for millennia. The most recent inuit immigration - a group from Baffin Island - took place only 130 years ago. In this area, you will come closest to the archetype of the traditional way of life of the Greenlandic hunter. They earn their living from hunting for seals, narwhales, walruses and polar bears, and hunting trips lasting several weeks are common. Every part of the animal is used. The meat is naturally used as food for both people and dogs, polar bear skins are used for trousers, sealskins for kamiks (top boots) and anoraks and narwhal tusks for making hunting implements and handicrafts. Qaanaaq is the base of Ultima Thule with its high quality production of crafts, which are exported to other Greenlandic towns.
This age-old way of life takes place in a modern town. When the US airbase at Thule (Dundas) was expanded in 1953, the population was actually moved some 100 kilometers to the north where an entirely new town was built, Qaanaaq. In this northernmost area, many dramas have occurred. It was from here that seven of explorer Knud Rasmussen's expeditions started out, and it was also from here that Peary tried to reach the North Pole in 1909.
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