Sermiligaaq (old spelling: ''Sermiligâk´'') is a settlement in the

Sermersooq Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital ...

municipality in southeastern

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 near the

Sermilik Sermilik ( da, Egede og Rothes Fjord) is a fjord in eastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality. The settlement of Tasiilaq is located about 15 km to the east of the mouth of the fjord. Geography This fjord, whose Gre ...

Fjord. Its population was 209 in 2020. In

Kalaallisut Kalaallisut may refer to: * Greenlandic language * West Greenlandic West Greenlandic ( da, vestgrønlandsk), also known as Kalaallisut, is the primary language of Greenland and constitutes the Greenlandic language, spoken by the vast majority of ...

, its name means "Beautiful Glacierfjord".

Geography

The small island of Quujuutilik (also spelled Kujutilik or Qûjûtilik) is located off the coast northeast of Sermiligaaq.GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
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Transport

The settlement is served by the

Sermiligaaq Heliport Sermiligaaq Heliport is a heliport in Sermiligaaq, a village in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland. The heliport is considered a ''helistop'', and is served by Air Greenland Air Greenland A/S (formerly named Grønlandsfly) ...

Population

The population of Sermiligaaq has slowly increased in the last two decades, unlike in the neighboring settlements of

Kuummiit Kuummiit (Kalaallisut: ''Kuummiut'') is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland. Founded in 1915, it had 248 inhabitants in 2020. Geography The settlement is located on the eastern shore of the Ammassalik Fjord, ap ...

and

Kulusuk Kulusuk (old spelling: ''Qulusuk''Eastgreenland.com.Kulusuk".), formerly Kap Dan, is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland, located on an island of the same name. The settlement population of 241 includes many Dane ...

.Statistics Greenland

References

External links

eastgreenland.com
Tourist information. {{Authority control Populated places in Greenland