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Uummannaq is a town in the Qaasuitsup municipality, in northwestern Greenland. With 1,282 inhabitants in 2013, it is the eleventh-largest town in Greenland, and is home to the country's most northerly ferry terminal. Founded in 1763 as Ûmañak, the town is a hunting and fishing base, with a canning factory and a marble quarry. In 1932 the Universal Greenland-Filmexpedition with director Arnold Fanck realized the film SOS Eisberg near Uummannaq.
Uummannaq is a high, prominent, isolated mountain in western Greenland, located on the small Uummannaq Island in the central part of the Uummannaq Fjord. It entirely dominates the landscape of the island, its base occupying its entire northern half. Formed of granite and basement gneiss, it is the most prominent mountain in the Arctic part of the west coast of Greenland. The mountain is a landmark of Greenland and a tourist magnet, often reproduced in art.
Uummannaq may refer to the following areas in Greenland, from north to south:
- Uummannaq, an Inuit settlement near the former settlements of Dundas and Pituffik near Thule Air Base, all three today abandoned
- Sugar Loaf Island , an island in the northern part of Upernavik Archipelago in northwestern Greenland
- Uummannaq Fjord, a large fjord in northwestern Greenland
- Uummannaq Island, an island in the above fjord
- Uummannaq (mountain), a mountain on Uummannaq Island
- Uummannaq, a town on Uummannaq Island
- Umanak (mission), a Moravian mission up-fjord from Nuuk in mid-western Greenland