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Discover Aasivissuit–Nipisat Hunting Landscape, Hvalsey Church Ruins, Nuuk Cathedral — Annaassisitta Oqaluffia.
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archaeology
This West Greenland cultural landscape preserves evidence of more than four thousand years of human history. Winter houses, hunting remains and other sites record movement between coastal resources and inland hunting areas. Paleo-Inuit and Inuit histories are part of a landscape connecting sea, land and the ice-cap region.
Source: UNESCO World Heritage Centre
history
Look through the simple doorway and across the open interior. Hvalsey Church survives from Greenland’s Norse settlement period, with high stone walls but no wooden roof. A wedding recorded here in 1408 is among the best-known written traces of that community.
Source: visitgreenland.com
culture
Follow the white-trimmed windows along the long red church to its small entrance porch. Built in 1848–49, Annaassisitta Oqaluffia stands in Old Nuuk and is known as Nuuk Cathedral. Its wooden architecture gives it a very different silhouette from the city’s modern white Hans Egede Church.
Source: visitgreenland.com
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