Narsarsuaq (May to October) : Profile

Location

Narsarsuaq is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. It had 158 inhabitants in 2010. There is a thriving tourism industry in and around Narsarsuaq, whose attractions include a great diversity of wildlife, gemstones, tours to glaciers, and an airfield museum. The name of the settlement means great plain in Greenlandic.

Narsarsuaq was the principal city of Greenland in the times of the Viking Eric the Red, 1000 years ago. Many ruins from this epoch of Greenland’s history still survive.

Docking

There is a small yacht haven here with two pontoons inside a breakwater.

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