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Aappilattoq or Rødførde is a village in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. The name means "red", after the red mountain rising above the settlement in the Greenlandic language. The settlement had 90 inhabitants in 2024. [2] The area of Aappilattoq has been inhabited since the 19th century, but the present-day village was founded ...
The task of the weather station was to ensure that the shipping industry had reliable data on the weather at Cape Farewell, Greenland. On 7 January 1959, when the ship MS Hans Hedtoft hit an iceberg at Cape Farvel , the radio telegraphist at the weather station at Prince Christian Sound was the first to catch the ship's distress signal.
Aappilattoq may refer to the following places in Greenland: Islands ... Aappilattoq, Kujalleq, a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland;
Kujalleq (Greenlandic: Greenlandic pronunciation: [kujaɬːɜq̚], Danish: Syden, lit. 'The South') is a municipality on the southern tip of Greenland , operational from 1 January 2009. The administrative center of the municipality is in Qaqortoq (formerly called Julianehåb).
Aappilattoq is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, located on an island of the same name in the southern part of Upernavik Archipelago. Founded in 1805, [ 1 ] the settlement had 149 inhabitants in 2020.
Nuuk (Godthåb) by night in April 2023, Greenland's capital and by far largest city. This is a list of cities and towns in Greenland as of 1 January 2024.The term 'city' is used loosely for any populated area in Greenland, given that the most populated place is Nuuk, the capital, with 19,900 inhabitants, amounting to about 35% of the total population. [1]
With 1,072 inhabitants as of 2024, Nanortalik is the third-largest town in the Kujalleq municipality. The population has decreased over the last several years. Most towns and settlements in southern Greenland have had negative growth over the last two decades, with many settlements rapidly depopulating. [12]
Aappilattoq Island is located in the southern part of Upernavik Archipelago.It forms part of the chain of islands bounding Upernavik Icefjord from the south. [1] The island is separated by inner waterways of Baffin Bay from the large Nutaarmiut Island in the southeast, from Nunaa Island in the south, and from Ammaussarsuaq Island in the southeast.