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Today the ruins of Kangeq are sometimes visited by historically oriented tourists. In 2009, the old houses of Kangeq were used as a backdrop for the
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From Middle Ages to Colonial Times: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Studies of the Thule Culture in South West Greenland 1300-1800 AD
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era have been found near Kangeq. The Dorset people had vanished from the Nuuk region prior to 1000 CE.
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Greenland: Being Extracts from a Journal Kept in that Country in the Years 1770 to 1778
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As a coastal settlement, Kangeq was positioned on the migration route of the ancient
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The island of Kangeq, dubbed Håbets Ø ("Island of Hope"), formed the site of
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The Atlantic Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in West Greenland
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Saabye, Hans Egede; Fries, Georg; Lloyd, Hannibal Evans (1818).
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film, with the settlement emulating the look of Nuuk in 1952.
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In the mid-19th century, it was also home to the artist
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Kangeq was located in an island at the mouth of the
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Kangeq, ca. 1890
Kangeq is located in Greenland
64°07′00″N 52°04′00″W / 64.11667°N 52.06667°W / 64.11667; -52.06667
Kingdom of Denmark
Constituent country
Greenland
Municipality

Sermersooq
CE
Time zone
UTC-03
Kalaallisut
Sermersooq
Greenland
Danish-Norwegian

Baal's River
Inuit
Dorset culture
Hans Egede
Claus Paarss

Tupilak
Aron of Kangeq
oral historian
Eksperimentet
Nuup Kangerlua
Labrador Sea
Nuuk

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