Places worth the detour in Avannaata
Detourmap lists 31 places in Avannaata, Greenland, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Ilulissat Icefjord. 19 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 31
- Oldest
- Melville Bay 1977
- Little known
- 19 of 31
- Share of Greenland
- 27%
Avannaata 31
All 31, best known first.
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1.Ilulissat Icefjord
Nature · 21st century · Notable
Fjord covered with ice and icebergs in Greenland
Elsewhere in Greenland
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Avannaata?
Ilulissat Icefjord, 21st century. Fjord covered with ice and icebergs in Greenland. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Avannaata?
31: 24 nature & landscapes and 7 archaeological & historic sites. 19 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Avannaata?
Melville Bay, dated to 1977. 2 of the 31 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Avannaata here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Avannaata if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Avannaata is a first-level division of Greenland, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.


























