Qeqertarsuaq
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history
By Qeqertarsuaq found traces of habitation 5-6000 years back in time, as there are settlements found traces of paleo-eskimos wandering south has been on the site.
Later, around the year 0, Dorset people came, leaving weapons and hunting gear.
But these first inhabitants there are only a few traces.You have up to 16-1700 century to find real testimony to the square.
In 1600 and 1700, the first whalers to Qeqertarsuaq, and found a suitable anchoring, which eventually formed the basis for the later colony.For more info:
http://www.qeqertarsuaq-museum.gl/historiedk.html
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The municipality
Qaasuitsup Municipality has approximately 17,700 inhabitants (2010 figures) who live scattered in towns and villages in the municipality. The municipality has eight towns and 31 villages, more than half of the total number of settlements in Greenland is located in the north municipality. The municipality stretches from just north of the Arctic Circle in the south up to about 81 degrees north. It is the world in terms of area the largest municipality, with a coastline of over 1,600 kilometers and an area of over 660,000 km2 - for comparison is France area about 540,000 kvadratkilometer.En large part of the municipal area is covered in indlandsisen.Qaasuitsup Municipality is not only geographically very scattered. Actually speaking residents in the northern parts of the municipality a completely different dialect of Greenlandic than residents of southern towns and settlements.
For more info: http://www.qaasuitsup.gl/da-DK/Om-kommunen/Fakta-om-kommunen
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Disco / Qeqertarsuaq
Qeqertarsuaq is the name for the island of Disko.
Qaasuitsup municipality stretches from just north of the Arctic Circle in the south up to about 81 degrees north.
It is the world in terms of area the largest municipality, with a coastline of over 1,600 kilometers and an area of over 660,000 km2 - compared to France's space approximately 540,000 square kilometers.
Qaasuitsup Municipality has approximately 17,700 inhabitants (2010 figures) who live scattered in towns and villages in the municipality. The island itself Disko represents the 8,500 km2, while the other 6,500 km2 consisting of sea area with the important shrimp and fish banks. Storbræen (Sermerssuaq) and the smaller glaciers represents about 1,500 km2.
A large part of the municipal area is covered in indlandsisen.Qaasuitsup Municipality is not only geographically very dispersed. Actually speaking residents in the northern parts of the municipality a completely different dialect of Greenlandic than residents of southern towns and settlements.
Qeqertarsuaq population was in February 2013, 847 inhabitants and rising, of which 34 persons live in Kangerluk / Diskofjord, which is now the only inhabited settlement.
The town of Qeqertarsuaq / Godhavn located on a peninsula with a natural harbor. The main business is Kabber and halibut, which crab fishing is the most important.
Tourism is well organized, but still have a minimal impact on the city's economy. The city has a large supermarket with bakery, post office with cash machine, electricity and auto service stations. The hospital has in recent years been expanded and the old doctor's house (originally the headquarters of the governor of North Greenland) now serves as a museum.
Church ('Lord inkwell') and the school is in the center of town close to Thygesen's lake, which unfortunately today is heavily polluted.
Arctic Station is located on the eastern edge of Qeqertarsuaq / Godhavn in the protected areas with ensvarme (homoterme) sources, lagoon and Black Sand.
Besides Arctic Station is the former research institutions in the city now only Geophysical Observatory back working with monitoring for ground magnetics and seismic waves.
Ionospheric station has been transformed into a kind of hostel.
Accommodation options in the city include besides the hostel also Hotel Disko, Fox Hostel, Siorarsuit Hostel Island Hostel, Hostel Napasuunnguit and a campsite at Red River.
A scheduled airport outside the city (east of the Red River), but so far the small heliport at Black Sand, the island's only landing place for helikoptertrafiken.
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Climate at the Disco
Qeqertarsuaq is characterized by the large marine Davis Strait and Baffin Bay. The climate is arctic maritime with relatively high rainfall and large temperature variations. Visitors must therefore be prepared for sudden and severe weather jacket.
The year average temperature is about -4 ° C. In March 1996, measured temperatures from -32.6 to 6.6 ° C and in June -2.6 to 14.8 ° C. Winds are at the Arctic Station is dominated by orographic conditions. Prevailing wind direction in the winter season is from the east, marked by cold katabatic fall winds from the ice sheet.
In the summer months the wind direction often westerly and bring 'heat' maritime air masses into the area.
Storms in the Davis Strait often cause heavy swell on the south coast of Disko and thus on the beach below the Arctic Station. Foehn situations are common in the area, resulting in wind speeds of 30 m / sec and violence summer temperature change (sudden temp. Increase of more than 30 ° C).
Snowmobiles should not be used on the ice next to Qeqertarsuaq - dog sleds are welcome.
The sea is covered by ice in December and it disappears again in May. In Vestdiskos fjords are islægningen longer (November to June). But there is great variation from year to year. In 1997 Porsild could sail to the end of January.
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