Nuugaatsiaq
Sign in to saveNuugaatsiaq (old spelling: Nûgâtsiaq) is a now abandoned settlement in the Avannaata municipality, in northwestern Greenland, located on an island off the southern coast of Sigguup Nunaa peninsula, in the Uummannaq Fjord basin. It had 84 inhabitants in 2010, but was abandoned after a tsunami struck in 2017.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Nuugaatsiaq
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Nuugaatsiaq.png
- Settlement.image_caption
- Damage to Nuugaatsiaq during the 2017 tsunami
- 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
- Avannaata
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 0
- Settlement.timezone
- UTC-03
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Settlement.postal_code
- 3961 Uummannaq
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ghost town
- Country
- Greenland
- Located in
- Avannaata
- Population
- 0
- Image
- Nuugaatsiaq.png
- Significant event
- tsunami
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- Nuugaatsiaq
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- 2017 tsunami
- Transport
- Infrastructure
- Population
- References
Nuugaatsiaq (old spelling: Nûgâtsiaq) is a now abandoned settlement in the Avannaata municipality, in northwestern Greenland, located on an island off the southern coast of Sigguup Nunaa peninsula, in the Uummannaq Fjord basin. It had 84 inhabitants in 2010, but was abandoned after a tsunami struck in 2017.
== History ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nuugaatsiaq” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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