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- proper noun A town in northwestern
Greenland near theThule airbase.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nowadays, the majority of the people in Qaanaaq live as we do with more or less the same amenities.
World's race for economic growth threatens Greenland's pure white wilderness 2011
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Uusaqqak Qujaukitsoq is a hunter from Qaanaaq, North Greenland.
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Qaanaaq climate change case study - Encyclopedia of Earth
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-- Sealers and whalers in Qaanaaq in north Greenland, say that the sea ice is three feet thinner today than earlier.
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Lunt and Hubert enjoy the warmth of traditional Inuit apparel before leaving Qaanaaq (and the fur) behind.
Ben Jervey: Destination: Greenland -- Lessons from the Ice 2009
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-- Sealers and whalers in Qaanaaq in north Greenland, say that the sea ice is three feet thinner today than earlier.
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Residents were forced to relocate to Qaanaaq, a mainland town, after the Danish government closed the small supply store it managed on Herbert Island in 1979.
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Drinking is a severe problem -- not surprising, considering that alcohol makes up fully one third of all the Qaanaaq store's sales.
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This could only be Qaanaaq, a settlement whose name is a palindrome.
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Hankering after light, I was offered light treatment for seasonal affective disorder at the hospital in Qaanaaq, but to have allowed myself this would have felt like cheating to me.
The Guardian World News Stephen Pax Leonard 2011
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