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Qaarsut Airport

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Qaarsut Airport (Mittarfik Qaarsut) is an airport in Qaarsut, a settlement on the Nuussuaq Peninsula in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. [1]

29 relations: Aeronautical Information Service, Air Greenland, Airport, Appat Island, Disko Bay, Fixed-wing aircraft, Greenland, Greenland Airport Authority, Ilulissat, Ilulissat Airport, Maamorilik, Mining, Nuussuaq Peninsula, Qaanaaq, Qaanaaq Airport, Qaarsut, Qaasuitsup, Sarqarput Strait, Sermitsiaq (newspaper), Sikorsky S-61, STOL, Sunk cost, Ukkusissat, Upernavik, Upernavik Airport, Uummannaq, Uummannaq Fjord, Uummannaq Heliport, Uummannaq Island.

Aeronautical Information Service

The Aeronautical Information Service (AIS) is a service established in support of international civil aviation, whose objective is to ensure the flow of information necessary for the safety, regularity, and efficiency of international air navigation.

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Air Greenland

Air Greenland A/S, also known as Greenlandair, is the flag carrier airline of Greenland, jointly owned by the SAS Group (37.5%), the Greenlandic Government and the Danish Government.

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Airport

An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.

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Appat Island

Appat Island (old spelling: Agpat) is an uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.

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Disko Bay

Disko Bay (Qeqertarsuup tunua; DiskobugtenChristensen, N.O. & al. "". Arctic Circular, Vol. 4 (1951), pp. 83–85. Op. cit. "Northern News". Arctic, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Mar 1952), pp. 58–59.) is a bay on the western coast of Greenland.

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Fixed-wing aircraft

A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft, such as an airplane or aeroplane (note the two different spellings), which is capable of flight using wings that generate lift caused by the vehicle's forward airspeed and the shape of the wings.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Greenland Airport Authority

The Greenland Airports (Mittarfeqarfiit, Grønlands Lufthavne) is the national airport operator of the airports in Greenland, in charge of airport upgrades and associated fees and taxes in all airports in Greenland.

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Ilulissat

Ilulissat, formerly Jakobshavn or Jacobshaven, is the municipal seat and largest town of the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland, located approximately north of the Arctic Circle.

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Ilulissat Airport

Ilulissat Airport (Mittarfik Ilulissat, Ilulissat Lufthavn)) is a minor international airport serving Ilulissat, Greenland, the entire Disko Bay Region, the North and West Greenland. It is the 59th largest airport in the Nordic countries with 83,000 passengers in 2012 and is the second airport built in Greenland for civilian travel partially funded by the EU (former EC) Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund. It is the third-busiest airport in Greenland, and by far one of the busiest for international travel in Greenland. The airport is located north-east of Ilulissat, just of city centre. It was built in 1983, replacing the heliport. The airport is the main hub out of three used by Air Greenland.

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Maamorilik

Maamorilik (old spelling: Mârmorilik or Maarmorilik, also Black Angel Mine) is a mining site in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Nuussuaq Peninsula

Nuussuaq Peninsula (old spelling: Nûgssuaq) is a large (180x48 km) peninsula in western Greenland.

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Qaanaaq

Qaanaaq, formerly Thule or New Thule, is the main town in the northern part of the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.

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Qaanaaq Airport

Qaanaaq Airport (Mittarfik Qaanaaq) is an airport located northwest of Qaanaaq, a settlement in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northern Greenland.

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Qaarsut

Qaarsut (old spelling: Kaersut) is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality, in northwestern Greenland.

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Qaasuitsup

Qaasuitsup (Greenlandic: Place of Polar Darkness) was a municipality in Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2017.

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Sarqarput Strait

Sarqarput Strait is a strait in the Uummannaq Fjord system in northwestern Greenland.

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Sermitsiaq (newspaper)

Sermitsiaq (Greenlandic for Saddle Mountain) is one of two national newspapers in Greenland.

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Sikorsky S-61

The Sikorsky S-61L and S-61N are civil variants of the successful Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King helicopter.

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STOL

STOL is an acronym for a short takeoff and landing aircraft, which have short runway requirements for takeoff and landing.

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Sunk cost

In economics and business decision-making, a sunk cost is a cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered (also known as retrospective cost).

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Ukkusissat

Ukkusissat (old spelling: Uvkusigssat) is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality, in northwestern Greenland.

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Upernavik

Upernavik (Kalaallisut: "Springtime Place") is a small town in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, located on a small island of the same name.

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Upernavik Airport

Upernavik Airport (Mittarfik Upernavik) is an airport located northeast of Upernavik, a town in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland, capable of serving STOL aircraft.

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Uummannaq

Uummannaq is a town in the Avannaata municipality, in northwestern Greenland.

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Uummannaq Fjord

Uummannaq Fjord is a large fjord system in the northern part of western Greenland, the largest after Kangertittivaq fjord in eastern Greenland.

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Uummannaq Heliport

Uummannaq Heliport is a heliport in Uummannaq, a town located on Uummannaq Island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.

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Uummannaq Island

Uummannaq Island (Uummannap qeqertaa) is a small (12 km2) island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.

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BGUQ, Uummannaq/Qaarsut Airport.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaarsut_Airport

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