Qaanaaq Airport
Qaanaaq Airport is an airport located 1.9 NM northwest of Qaanaaq, a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland. It was established in 1991 to serve Qaanaaq and neighboring communities because Thule Air Base in Pituffik is not open for regular passenger traffic.Localities in the Area
Qaanaaq
Photo: Mark Parsons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Qaanaaq, formerly known as Thule, in northern Greenland is one of the world's northernmost civilian settlements, topped only by Longyearbyen on Svalbard and a few military bases.
Qaanaaq Airport
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Avannaata, Greenland
- Categories: airport, commercial traffic aerodrome and transportation
- Location: Avannaata, Greenland, North America
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Latitude
77.48834° or 77° 29' 18" northLongitude
-69.38874° or 69° 23' 20" westElevation
71 metres (233 feet)Operator
Greenland Airport AuthorityIATA airport code
NAQICAO airport code
BGQQOpen Location Code
C79GFJQ6+8GOpenStreetMap ID
way 883707678OpenStreetMap Feature
aeroway=aerodromeGeoNames ID
7668096Wikidata ID
Q2748862Qaanaaq Airport Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: مطار كاناك
- Cebuano: Qaanaaq Airport
- Chinese: 卡納克機場
- Danish: Qaanaaq Lufthavn
- English: BGQQ
- English: NAQ
- French: Aéroport de Qaanaaq
- French: aéroport de Qaanaaq
- German: Flughafen Qaanaaq
- Indonesian: BGQQ
- Indonesian: NAQ
- Italian: aeroporto di Qaanaaq
- Japanese: カーナーク空港
- Kalaallisut: Mittarfik Qaanaaq
- Latvian: Kānākas lidosta
- Malay: Lapangan Terbang Qaanaaq
- Norwegian: Qaanaaq lufthavn
- Norwegian Bokmål: Qaanaaq lufthavn
- Persian: BGQQ
- Persian: NAQ
- Persian: فرودگاه کاآناگ
- Persian: فرودگاه کااناگ
- Polish: Port lotniczy Qaanaaq
- Portuguese: Aeroporto de Qaanaaq
- Romanian: Aeroportul Qaanaaq
- Russian: Каанаак
- Swedish: Qaanaaq Airport
- Tajik: Фурудгоҳи кооног
Localities in the Area
- QeqertarsuaqVillage, 20 km west
- KangerluarsukVillage, 21 km east
- QuinisutVillage, 39 km east
- SiorapalukVillage, 44 km northwest
Landmarks in the Area
- Qaanaaq Police StationPolice station
- Qaanaaq churchChurch
- Geophysical ObservatoryObservatory
- Qaanaaq MuseumMuseum
- Qeqertaarsuup TasersuaLake, 19 km southwest
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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 Wikipdia page Qaanaaq Airport. Photo: Greenland Airports Mittarfeqarfiit, CC BY 2.0.