Siorapaluk ( West Greenlandic ) or Hiurapaluk ( Polar Inuit ) is a settlement in the Qaanaaq area of the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland . The settlement is located in the northern shore of the Siorapaluup Kangerlua (Robertson Fjord). It has a population of 43 who speak the Inuktun language of the Polar Inuit as well as the Kalaallisut dialect of Greenlandic. Many of the inhabitants are direct descendants of the last migration of Inuit from Canada in the 20th century.
5-523: Siorapaluk is the northernmost inhabited public settlement in Greenland, and one of the northernmost such settlements in the world , surpassed only by a few villages in Svalbard . It is also the world's northernmost place inhabited by natives. There is good hunting in the area of the settlement, and the cliffs around it function as breeding grounds for dovekie (UK English: little auk) ( Alle alle ) and
10-420: Is Svalbard's primary city, Longyearbyen , which has a population of over 2,000. When occupied for a few weeks some years, the northernmost temporary settlement in the world is Camp Barneo , a Russian tourist attraction located near 88°11'00" N. As of 2022, it had not been occupied since 2018. The tables below shows the settlements, towns, and cities that are the northernmost in the world of their kind. This
15-561: The North Pole , ranging from about 70° N to about 89° N . This is a list showing all of the northernmost settlements on Earth, which are all south of latitude 90° N . There are no permanent civilian settlements north of 79° N , the furthest north (78.55° N) being Ny-Ålesund , a permanent settlement of about 30 (in the winter) to 130 (in the summer) people on the Norwegian island of Svalbard . Just below this settlement at 78.12° N
20-630: The settlement is visited regularly by a physician and a dentist. Air Greenland operates settlement flights to Qaanaaq Airport and to Savissivik Heliport via Pituffik Space Base . The distance to Qaanaaq is 45 km. The twice-weekly flights are subsidized by the Government of Greenland. Transfers at the airbase are subject to access restrictions by the Danish Foreign Ministry . Northernmost settlements The most northern settlements on Earth are communities close to
25-463: The thick-billed murre (UK English: Brünnich's guillemot) ( Uria lomvia ). There are many Arctic foxes and Arctic hares in the area and an abundance of seals and walruses which are hunted. Siorapaluk has an electrical power plant, direct satellite radio and TV-broadcasting, a well stocked store and telephone service. The settlement's school is combined with its church and a small public library. Although there are no resident medical facilities,
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