Upernavik
Upernavik is home to the largest bird cliff, Apparsuit, and unique wildlife. Upernavik’s main industry is fishing. Local settlements are spread across the 450km coastline.Photo: Slaunger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Slaunger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Upernavik Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Slaunger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Upernavik Airport is an airport located 0.5 NM northeast of Upernavik, a town in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, capable of serving STOL aircraft.
Upernavik Museum
Museum
Photo: HelgeRieder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Upernavik Museum is a museum in Upernavik, a town in northwestern Greenland.
Upernavik
- Type: Town with 1,130 residents
- Description: town in Greenland
- Categories: human settlement, city and locality
- Location: Avannaata, Northern Greenland, Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
72.7847° or 72° 47' 5" northLongitude
-56.147° or 56° 8' 49" westPopulation
1,130IATA airport code
JUVUnited Nations Location Code
GL JUVOpen Location Code
C845QVM3+V6OpenStreetMap ID
node 338192478OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3418910Wikidata ID
Q303160Upernavik Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: آبرناويك
- Asturian: Upernavik
- Belarusian: Упернавік
- Belarusian: Упэрнавік
- Bulgarian: Упернавик
- Catalan: Upernavik
- Cebuano: Upernavik
- Chinese: 乌佩纳维克
- Chinese: 烏培爾納維克
- Czech: Upernavik
- Danish: Upernavik
- Dutch: Upernavik
- Egyptian Arabic: آبرناويك
- English: Uppernavik
- Esperanto: Upernavik
- Finnish: Upernavik
- French: Upernavik
- Georgian: უპერნავიკი
- German: Upernavik
- Hebrew: אופרנאוויק
- Hungarian: Upernavik
- Icelandic: Upernavik
- Iloko: Upernavik
- Indonesian: Upernavik
- Italian: Upernavik
- Japanese: ウペルナビク
- Kalaallisut: Upernavik
- Kalaallisut: Upernaviup kommunea
- Khmer: អ៊ុយព័រណាវីក
- Komi: Упернавик
- Korean: 우페르나비크
- Lao: Upernavik
- Lithuanian: Upernavikas
- Macedonian: Упернавик
- Moksha: Упэрнавик
- Northern Frisian: Upernavik
- Norwegian: Upernavik
- Norwegian Bokmål: Upernavik
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Upernavik
- Polish: Upernavik
- Portuguese: Upernavik
- Russian: Упернавик
- Samogitian: Upernaviks
- Serbian: Упернавик
- Spanish: Upernavik
- Swedish: Upernavik
- Turkish: Upernavik
- Ukrainian: Упернавік
- Summer Place
- Upernivik
Other Places Named Upernavik
Localities in the Area
- TunoqquVillage, 9 km northeast
- KingittoqVillage, 14 km southeast
- UpernaviarsukVillage, 17 km east
- AappilattoqVillage, 21 km northeast
- InussugaarsukVillage, 24 km east
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Upernavik. Photo: Slaunger, CC BY-SA 4.0.