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    Ammassalik Island (Danish: King Oscar Island) is an island in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland, with an area of 772 km2 (298.1 sq mi)...
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  • Ammassalik was one of two municipalities in Tunu, the former county of East Greenland − the other one being Illoqqortoormiut (further north). It was located...
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    medium for carving. Customary art-making practices thrive in Ammassalik Island. Ammassalik wooden maps are carved maps of the Greenlandic coastline, used...
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    Tasiilaq, formerly Ammassalik or Angmagssalik and King Oscar Haven, is a town on Ammassalik Island in southeastern Greenland, within the municipality...
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    Tasiilaq Heliport or Ammassalik Heliport (IATA: AGM, ICAO: BGAM) is a heliport in Tasiilaq, a town located on the Ammassalik Island in the Sermersooq municipality...
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    largest town where it is the primary language is Tasiilaq on Ammassalik Island, with the island's name being derived from the West Greenlandic name of the...
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    Greenlandic Inuit from Iivi Nunaa, Tunu in the area of Kangikajik and Ammassalik, the eastern part of Inuit Nunaat (East Greenland). The Iivit live now...
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    the departures hall. Unlike the heliport in Tasiilaq on the nearby Ammassalik Island, the airport in Kulusuk can serve light and medium fixed wing aircraft...
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    Von Trapp and offers 62 miles (100 km) of groomed terrain. Ammassalik Island is an island in East Greenland that offers opportunities for guided back-country...
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    Vágar, Viðoy Greenland (Denmark) Appat Island, Akilia, Alluttoq, Ammassalik, Anoraliuirsoq, Apusiaajik Island, Bjonesk, Clavering, Disko (Qeqertarsuaq)...
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    southeastern shore of Greenland. It is an outlying island in the Ammassalik archipelago of islands on the coast of the North Atlantic. Icelandair STOL...
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    wider half of the fjord separates the large Ammassalik Island in the west from islands of the eponymous Ammassalik Archipelago in the east and southeast, including...
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    Alluttoq Island Aluk Island Ammassalik Island Appat Island Apusiaajik Island ATOW1996 Beaumont Island Bjorne Island Bjorne Islands Bonsall Islands Bontekoe...
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    the Eastern Settlement in southeast Greenland, but does not reach Ammassalik Island. 1829–1833: Royal Navy expedition led by John Ross to search for the...
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    The eastern dialect (Tunumiit oraasiat), spoken in the vicinity of Ammassalik Island and Ittoqqortoormiit, is the most innovative of the Greenlandic dialects...
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    Nuuk on the western coast, Reykjavík in Iceland, and Tasiilaq on Ammassalik Island, which links many other villages in the region through settlement...
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  • Kitak (category Islands of Greenland)
    eastern coast and the seventh-largest town in Greenland, located on Ammassalik Island on the other side of the fjord about 40 km to the east-northeast....
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  • Umivik is an abandoned settlement at Ammassalik Fjord. As of the winter of 1884–5, 19 Inuit lived there in a single dwelling. The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence...
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    formation: Ammassalik Municipality Ittoqqortoormiit Municipality Ivittuut Municipality Nuuk Municipality Paamiut Municipality Tasiilaq (Ammassalik) Kuummiit...
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    Arctic Circle in the Schweizerland Alps, north of Sermilik, near Ammassalik Island. Its elevation is 3,383 metres (11,099 ft) and there is an ice dome...
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    May 2016. "Cerro de Punta". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 4 May 2016. "Ammassalik Island high point". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 4 May 2016. "Herbert Volcan"...
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    or a "spirit object". Traditional art-making practices thrive in the Ammassalik. Sperm whale ivory remains a valued medium for carving. Greenland has...
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    Ammassalik wooden maps are carved, tactile maps of the Greenlandic coastlines. In the 1880s, Gustav Holm led an expedition to the Ammassalik coast of eastern...
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    State Nature Reserve “Wrangel Island "Ministry of Natural Resources of the russian Federation – History of Wrangel Island". Archived from the original...
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    "Sangmissoq high point". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 4 May 2016. "Ammassalik Island high point". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 4 May 2016. "Peary Land high...
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    finally began his crossing at Umivik Bay. List of fjords of Greenland Ammassalik Island Kristian Kristiansen (explorer) Sermilik Station Sermiligaaq Bjarne...
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  • mainland. The island is located in King Christian IX Land to the southwest of Tiniteqilaaq, and to the west of Ammassalik Island. List of islands of Greenland...
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    683; -37.917 Sermilik Station is a glaciology research station on Ammassalik Island, dedicated to the research of the nearby Mittivakkat Glacier. It is...
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  • This is a list of the islands of Greenland by area. It includes all islands in Greenland greater than 100 km2 (39 sq mi), sorted in descending order by...
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    located in southeast Greenland, and is part of the largest ice field on Ammassalik Island. This glacier has been in retreat (negative net mass balance) throughout...
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