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Tunulliarfik Fjord
Tunulliarfik Fjord is located in Greenland
Tunulliarfik Fjord
Tunulliarfik Fjord
Location in Greenland
LocationArctic
Coordinates60°59′N 45°35′W / 60.983°N 45.583°W / 60.983; -45.583
Ocean/sea sourcesLabrador Sea
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length60 km (37 mi)
Max. width6.5 km (4.0 mi)
Upper Tunulliarfik Fjord seen from Mellemlandet ridge above Narsarsuaq

Tunulliarfik Fjord (old spelling: Tunugdliarfik; Danish: Eriksfjord) is a fjord near Qaqortoq in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. It is the inner section of Skovfjord (Skovfjorden). In times of the Norse settlement in southern Greenland, it was known as Eiriksfjord.

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name Narsaq is Kalaallisut for "Plain", referring to the shore of Tunulliarfik Fjord where the town is located. People have lived in the area for thousands...

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Narsarsuaq

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Erik the Red established in 985 was located on the opposite bank of Tunulliarfik Fjord, where the modern settlement of Qassiarsuk is situated. In 1941 the...

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July 1942, the supply ship SS Montrose was wrecked on a cliff in the Tunulliarfik Fjord southwest of the airbase. The first aircraft from the Danish Air Force...

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Sarpik Ittuk – which serviced the Upernavik Archipelago, the Uummannaq Fjord region, and Disko Bay: 198–199  – was sold in 2006 to Nova Cruising, a company...

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Qassiarsuk

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unique testimony to Greenlandic farming. Brattahlíð is located by Tunulliarfik Fjord (Skovfjorden in Danish), and it was the site of Erik the Red's estate...

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Igaliku

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jutting off the mainland of Greenland near the eastern shore of upper Tunulliarfik Fjord. Access to Igaliku from Narsarsauq is cheaper and easier by landing...

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USCGC Edisto

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USS Whitewood, which had been damaged by ice and had run aground in Tunulliarfik Fjord at Narsaq, Greenland. The next cruise of Edisto to the north polar...

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Catholic Church in Greenland

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21st-century reproduction of Thjodhild's church, with Tunulliarfik Fjord in the background (then called Eriksfjord), thought to be the first church and...

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Ikersuaq

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neighbouring Tunulliarfik and Skovfjord. Ivar Haug (2005). Gazetteer of Greenland UBiT (Trondheim University Library), ISBN 82-7113-114-1 List of fjords of Greenland...

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