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Upernavik
Upernavik (Kalaallisut: "Springtime Place") is a small town in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland, located on a small island of the same name. With 1,181 inhabitants as of 2013,〔 it is the twelfth-largest town in Greenland. Owing to the small size of the settlement, everything is within walking distance. It contains the Upernavik Museum. It is the northern-most town in Greenland with a population of over 1,000.
== History ==
The town was founded as Upernavik in 1772.〔Colton, G.W. "(Northern America. British, Russian & Danish Possessions In North America. )" J.H. Colton & Co. (New York), 1855.〕 From the former name of its island, it was sometimes known as Women's Island; its name was also sometimes Anglicized to "Uppernavik".〔Walker, J. & al. "(British North America. )" Baldwin & Cradock (London), 1844.〕 In 1824, the Kingittorsuaq Runestone was found outside the town. It bears runic characters left by Norsemen, probably from the late 13th century. The runic characters list the names of three Norsemen and mention the construction of a rock cairn nearby.
This is the furthest north that any Norse artifacts have been found, other than those small artifacts that could have been carried north by Inuit traders and marks the northern known limit of Viking exploration.
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