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Holsteinsborg (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 66 55 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 66.9167 decimal degrees |
| Long: 053 41 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 53.6830 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located near mouth of Amerloq Fjord; originally was a whaling settlement, now a modern fishing port; Greenlandic name, Sisimiut, means "place of the foxes' earth." |
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| Holsteinsborg (preferred,C,V,Danish-P,U,N)
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| Sisimiut (C,V,Greenlandic-P,U,N)
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| Holstensborg (C,V)
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| Holstenborg (C,V)
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| Holsteinborg (C,V)
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| Amerdlok (C,V)
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled by Danes in 1764 |
| town (C) |
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| port (C) |
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