Igaliku
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Igaliku is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. The town was founded as Igaliko in 1783 by the trader and colonial administrator Anders Olsen and his Greenlandic wife, Tuperna. In 2020, Igaliku had 21 inhabitants. The nearby Norse ruins of Garðar and the farms surrounding the town were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2017 as part of the Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap site.
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- Locality
- Igaliku
- Region
- Kujalleq
- Country
- Kalaallit Nunaat
- Population
- 21
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Igaliku
- Settlement.other_name
- Garðar, Igaliko
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Vatnahverfi.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituent country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- 22px Kujalleq
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Klaus Egede
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1783
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2025
- Settlement.population_total
- 31
- Settlement.timezone1
- Western Greenland Time
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 29
- Area
- 49524
- Image
- Illerfissalik.JPG
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- Igaliku
- inception
- 1783-00-00
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Igaliku is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. The town was founded as Igaliko in 1783 by the trader and colonial administrator Anders Olsen and his Greenlandic wife, Tuperna. In 2020, Igaliku had 21 inhabitants. The nearby Norse ruins of Garðar and the farms surrounding the town were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2017 as part of the Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap site.
== Geography == Igaliku is located southeast of Narsarsuaq, on a peninsula jutting off the mainland of Greenland near the eastern shore of upper Tunulliarfik Fjord. Access to Igaliku from Narsarsauq is cheaper and easier by landing at the small harbor of Itilleq and then crossing the isthmus 4 km (2.5 mi).
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