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Kangerlussuaq travel guide, guidebook and phrasebooks, download .pdf chapters on Lonely Planet.
Kangerlussuaq (Danish: Søndre Strømfjord) is a settlement in western Greenland in the Qeqqata municipality, located at the head of a fjord of the same name. It is Greenland's main air transport hub, being the site of Greenland's largest commercial airport. Kangerlussuaq is the Greenlandic word for 'Big Fjord'. Kangerlussuaq was also known as Bluie West Eight and Sondrestrom Air Base during its time as an American military base. The Kangerlussuaq area is also home to Greenland's most diverse land-based wildlife (such as muskoxen, caribou and gyrfalcons). The combination of these two factors has made Kangerlussuaq a significant tourist centre for most of the year. The settlement's economy and population of 556 is now almost completely reliant on the airport and tourist industry. Kangerlussuaq, originally known as Bluie West Eight was founded on 7 October 1941, at the east end of Kangerlussuaq fjord, under the supervision of Colonel Bernt Balchen of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). While Inuit hunters certainly visited Kangerlussuaq there appears never to have been an Inuit settlement there ... more on Wikipedia.The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
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