Qaanaaq
Meanings
name
- A town in northwestern Greenland near the Thule Air Base.
Word forms
Etymology
From Greenlandic, related to qaaneq (“space underneath the sleeping platform”) and originally meaning “hollowed out by wind or ice erosion.”
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