Tasiilaq, formerly Ammassalik and Angmagssalik, is a town in southeastern Greenland. With 1,985 inhabitants as of 2020, it is the most populous community on the eastern coast. The people of Saqqaq culture were the first to reach eastern Greenland.
About Tasiilaq in brief
Tasiilaq, formerly Ammassalik and Angmagssalik, is a town in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland. With 1,985 inhabitants as of 2020, it is the most populous community on the eastern coast, and the seventh-largest town in Greenland. The people of Saqqaq culture were the first to reach eastern Greenland, arriving from the north, through what is now known as Peary Land and Independence Fjord.
The Norse would have been familiar with the area as the first landmark on the voyage between Iceland’s Snæfellsnes peninsula and Greenland. Thule migrations passed through the area in the fifteenth century, finding the southeastern coast uninhabited.
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