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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.

Nature24 Archaeological7
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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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.