Uummannaq is a reasonably big town of 1500 people, some 500 km. North of the Polar Circle. It is dominated by the 1175 meter high Heart Mountain, which has given the town its Greenlandic name, "The Heart Shaped".
The earliest part of Uummannaq is next to the harbor.
The yellow blubber house was used to store seal and whale blubber, and was built in 1860.
The earthen houses next to the church and the harbor were built in 1925, and one of them was actually inhabited until 1980. Today the houses are protected, but you can still get to spend a night in them.
Uummannaq is very much close to nature - and very much the real Greenland. Mountains, icebergs, dogs, fishing, hunting, trapping, it's all done here.
At the Nuussuaq peninsula, just South of Uummannaq, there are several glaciers - one of them, called "Big Qarajaq", moves at 7.2 kilometers per year, which makes it the fastest flowing glacier in Greenland.
Uummannaq is conected to the rest of the World by the Arctic Umiaq Line boats, as well as by helicopter. Whether the boats will continue to come after 2005 is unsure, due to political intitatives to close the route.
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