Qeqertat is a small village in the
Qaanaaq
Qaanaaq (), formerly known as Thule or New Thule, is the main town in the northern part of the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is one of the northernmost cities and towns, northernmost towns in the world. The inhabitants of ...
area of the
Avannaata
Avannaata (, da, Det Nordlige, lit=The Northern) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality. It encompasses an area of 522,700 km2 and has 10,726 inhabitants.
Geography
In ...
municipality, in northern
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ...
. It is located on the
Harvard islands
The Harvard Islands ( da, Harward Øer) are an island group east of Qaanaaq in the Avannaata Municipality, northwestern Greenland.
They are located near the head of the Inglefield Fjord, north of the mouth of the Academy Fjord and just east of the ...
, in the inner
Inglefield Fjord
Inglefield Gulf or Inglefield Fjord ( da, Inglefield Bredning; kl, Kangerlussuaq) is a fjord in northwestern Greenland. To the west, the fjord opens into the Baffin Bay. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.
Inglefield Gulf ...
, approximately east of Qaanaaq. The village had 23 inhabitants in 2020. It is the most northern community in the world, not big enough to be considered a town.
Population
The population of Qeqertat has been stable in the last two decades.
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After registering a decline in the 90's, the population grew to 30 in 2010, before declining again to 23 in 2019.
References
Further reading
* Fredskild, Bent. ''The Holocene Vegetational Development of Tugtuligssuaq and Qeqertat, Northwest Greenland''. Meddelelser om Grønland, 14. Copenhagen: Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland, 1985.
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