Qaanaaq


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Qaa·naaq

 (kä-näk′)
See Thule2.
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Qaanaaq, the northernmost village in Greenland sits just shy of 78 degrees north latitude - deep in the Arctic - yet during the summer, meltwater is everywhere.
A way of life melting away
The United States has a significant number of well-equipped air force bases in the high north: Eielson, Fort Clear, Fort Greely, Fort Wainwright, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and Qaanaaq (Thule) in Greenland.
Five nations Jockey for military influence in Arctic
The majority of the tribe relocated to Qaanaaq, more than 100 km away from Uummannaq.
Denial of justice: the latest indigenous land disputes before the European Court of Human Rights and the need for an expansive interpretation of Protocol 1
A linguist and an anthropologist at heart, Leonard gives a very personal account of the meeting with a small group of Polar Inughuit in the town of Qaanaaq and two other settlements on the northernmost western coast of Greenland.
The Polar North: Ways of Speaking, Ways of Belonging
The expedition team will depart for Narsaq, Greenland, in the south on Friday April 12 and finish at Qaanaaq in the north.
It's snowy, freezing and blowing a gale; ... and kite skiier Mike couldn't be happier
The risky five-day helicopter expedition, dubbed "Petermish", departed from Qaanaaq, the northernmost non-military permanent settlement in the world.
Scientist is speechless as glacier just turns to water; VAST GREENLAND ICE BLOCK MELTS AWAY IN TWO YEARS
In February 2006, scientists associated with the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk interviewed 72 experienced polar bear hunters in the Qaanaaq and Upernavik municipalities of Northwest Greenland.
Polar bears in northwest Greenland; an interview survey about the catch and the climate
LEFT: often called the 'King of Thule: Masauna, from Qaanaaq, northwest Greenland, yells at his dogs as the sledges approach a crack in the ice.
Last days of the Arctic: Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson has been travelling to Greenland for three decades, documenting the traditional hunting culture of the remote Inuit communities in the frozen north. His new book, Last Days of the Arctic, is a testament to a way of life that, due to social, industrial and climatic change is slowly disappearing
This led to the revelation that the remote North Pole outcrop of Qaanaaq, just a clutch of tiny wooden huts set against an enormous, unforgiving swath of frozen white, somehow had a massive, strip-lighted supermarket.
BEVAN ON THE BOX BOX
In 1998, I became fast friends with Ussarqak Qujaukitsoq, from Qaanaaq, Greenland.
Rescuing Inuit names from phonetic butchery
From their home in Qaanaaq, a village in Greenland's Thule region, the Kristiansens have traveled here, to the edge of the world, by dog sledge.
Dozens of words for snow, none for pollution: perched atop the Arctic food chain, the people of the Far North face an impossible choice: abandon their traditional foods, or ingest the rest of the world's poisons with every bite
Little but the exoticism of her formal Greenland folk dress has been reported here, but she got all the way to the far northern Polar Inuit village, Qaanaaq, where her husband had made many friends during a previous stay.
Greenland's 25 years of indigenous self-rule
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