Kitsissuarsuit
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Kitsissuarsuit (old spelling: Kitsigsuarssuit) is a settlement in Qeqertalik municipality in western Greenland. The settlement was formerly founded in 1830 as Hunde Ejlande or '''Dog's Island''', although it had already been used as a whaling station since 1817. Its population was 50 in 2020.
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- Locality
- Kitsissuarsuit
- Region
- GL.05
- Country
- Kalaallit Nunaat
- Population
- 50
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kitsissuarsuit
- Settlement.other_name
- Hunde Ejlande
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kitsissuarsuit.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Kitsissuarsuit
- 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
- Qeqertalik
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1830
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2025
- Settlement.population_total
- 55
- Settlement.timezone1
- Western Greenland Time
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- −02:00
- Settlement.timezone1_DST
- Western Greenland Summer Time
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- rural area
- Country
- Greenland
- Located in
- Qeqertalik
- Population
- 53
- Area
- 0.79
- Image
- Kitsissuarsuit.jpg
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- Kitsissuarsuit
- inception
- 1830-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Geography
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- Air
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- Population
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Kitsissuarsuit (old spelling: Kitsigsuarssuit) is a settlement in Qeqertalik municipality in western Greenland. The settlement was formerly founded in 1830 as Hunde Ejlande or '''Dog's Island''', although it had already been used as a whaling station since 1817. Its population was 50 in 2020.
== Geography == Kitsissuarsuit is located on a small, island in southern Disko Bay, north of Aasiaat.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kitsissuarsuit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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