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With 3,069 inhabitants as of 2020, Aasiaat is the largest town in the Qeqertalik municipality. The population has fluctuated considerably over the last two decades, decreasing 3% relative to the 2001 levels and increasing more than 10% relative to the 2008 levels.
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Aasiaat has several recurrent events which engage most of the inhabitants and visitors. "Maaji-mi Peqqissuusa" (let's stay healthy in May) is an arrangement with focus on activities which will improve one's health and is based on volunteer organizers.
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Aasiaat saw much growth in the first half of the 20th century. In 1932, the town opened the first school in the country which allowed women to obtain secondary education. One of its first graduates was the first woman novelist of Greenland,
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Nipiaa Rock Festival is usually a 3-day long concert with various musicians. It is known as the best musical event in Greenland. The Rock Festival takes place in the Sportshall at the end of August/beginning of September.
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were abundant. Alternatively it might be a relic of Inuit mythology, wherein spiders bring good luck. Similar to the rest of Greenland, spiders are rarely seen in the town.
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coastal ship and Diskoline.gl (domestic passenger ships for disko bay). Aasiaat harbour functions as well as a hub for regional shipping. The town is also served by
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and packed. Other businesses sprang up, accommodating to the resources and climate of the region. This boom reached its peak in the 1950s, when a
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Aasiaat Midnightsun Marathon takes place in late June with different distances with start/finish in the town square with live music.
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are the primary economic activities of the region. The archipelago area offers many services for tourists, including
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on the namesake island, the westernmost of the archipelago, 29 km (18 mi) west-south-west of Aasiaat.
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after him, it was located north of Nordre Strømfjord, and was 125 km south of Aasiaat's current location.
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The town of Aasiaat (3,142 inhabitants), is located on the namesake island just northwest of Saqqarliup Nunaa.
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projects in the region have suggested human habitation in the region that includes Aasiaat as far back as the
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Icebergs stranded in the waterways of the Aasiaat archipelago, Greenland, near the Aasiaat harbor
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processing factory. Today, almost 4,800 people live in Aasiaat and its neighboring settlement,
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germs they carried to the region ravaged the native population, especially during the 1770s.
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Hunde Ejland, for the village and the island), 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Aasiaat.
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Aasiaat has four schools: a regular school (Gammeqarfik), a highschool (GU-Aasiaat), a
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The settlement that would become Aasiaat was founded in 1759 by Niels Egede, son of
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and other settlements in the country and Disko Bay region, as well as the
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The town was moved to its current site in 1763. Most villagers were
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Climate data for Aasiaat (normals 1991–2020, extremes 1958–2020)
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With a population of 2,980 as of 2021, it is Greenland's 669:(87 inhabitants) is located on the small namesake island ( 593: 440: 700:) with a July mean of only 6.8 Â°C or 44.2 Â°F. 1738:"Climatological Standard Normals 1991-2020 Greenland" 462:when the water freed up; in the winter, they used 643:The largest island of the Aasiaat Archipelago is 3339: 3224: 2350: 454:These early people designed and built their own 1351:Aasiaat population growth dynamics, 1991-2010. 3210: 2336: 1847: 1493: 1491: 1489: 619:was the only aerial facility); it is near a 469: 3217: 3203: 2343: 2329: 1854: 1840: 1730: 1705: 1692: 1690: 1688: 592:was constructed in 1942 by the Americans. 528: 1486: 1863:Cities, towns, and villages in Greenland 1612: 1322:Source: Danish Meteorological Institute 634: 588:Aasiaat has grown much since the war. A 473: 376:Aasiaat is sometimes referred to as the 343: 1685: 1637: 1566: 1501:. Statistical Greenland. 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Aasiaat, Greenland
Aasiaat harbor
Flag of Aasiaat
Coat of arms of Aasiaat
Aasiaat is located in Greenland
68°42′35″N 52°52′10″W / 68.70972°N 52.86944°W / 68.70972; -52.86944
Kingdom of Denmark
Constituent country
Greenland
Municipality
Qeqertalik
S
Time zone
UTC-3
WGT
DST
UTC-2
WGST
[aːsiaːt]
Qeqertalik
municipality
Greenland
Disko Bay
fifth-largest town

Greenlandic
Danish
spiders
marine mammals
whales

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