Sisimiut

Sisimiut around 1980

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Sisimiut (also known by its Danish name 'Holsteinsborg') is a town in southwestern Greenland. With 5,247 people (as of 2005), it is the second biggest town in Greenland. It is 75 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, and is Greenland's most northern year-round port which has no ice.

Sisimiut Media

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  Iliveq, a prehistoric Inuit stone grave near Sisimiut Airport. It is located on a hill above the airport built at the current sea level, near the small sand dunes of what used to have been the shoreline

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  The road to Sisimiut Airport, Sisimiut, Kangerluarsunnguaq Bay, Nasaasaaq, and Amerloq Fjord seen from Palasip Qaqqaa

• Sisimiut-valley-alanngorsuaq.jpg

  Sisimiut valley and the lakes under Alanngorsuaq are the primary recreation areas for the people of Sisimiut

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  Nasaasaaq (784 m (2,572 ft)) is the highest mountain in the vicinity of Sisimiut, towering over the town from the southeast

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  Pisiffik supermarket in Sisimiut, Greenland. Bookstore (Atuagaarniarfik) in a small green building below.

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  A street name sign in Greenlandic near the port

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  The former Colonial Manager's Home, now part of the Sisimiut Museum

• Knud Rasmussen High School

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  A traditional Greenlandic peat house, reconstructed at the Sisimiut Museum

• Sisimiut-airport-from-palasip-qaqqaa.jpg

  Sisimiut Airport, Greenland, photographed from under the main summit of Palasip Qaqqaa (544m).

Other websites

• Municipality of Sisimiut Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine