Guided walk in the city, Qeqertarsuaq
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Culture

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$

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Historic

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Join a guide on a two-hour walking tour of Qeqertarsuaq and learn about the city’s cultural history and the day-to-day life of the approximately 850 inhabitants who live relatively isolated on an island the size of Crete.

Price: DKK 250 per person

Type of tour: Culture-historical city walk & storytelling
Difficulty of tour: Easy
Season: 01/06 – 30/09
Tours: Every day of the week
Time: 15:00-16:30
Minimum: 2 persons

On this guided city walk in Qeqertarsuaq you will learn about the history of Qeqertarsuaq as well as modern life above the polar circle. Qeqertarsuaq was founded in 1773 as a whaling station and today it has approx. 850 inhabitants. The city and the island, a bit confusingly, has the same name which in Greenlandic simply means ‘The big island’.  The primary occupation is fishing and hunting, especially fishing for snow crabs and lumpfish is important – seeing the busy harbor is therefore always interesting. We will walk around town and the guide will tell you about the culture-history as well as the modern life above the polar circle.

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