Kujalleq Southern Greenland

Kujalleq Southern Greenland

Welcome to Kujalleq  Greenland

Kujalleq "the southernmost municipality" was formed January 1, 2009, and consists of the former Narsaq, Nanortalik and Qaqortoq municipalities.
Municipality Kujalleq total area of approximately 53,000 km², and the population was at. July 1, 2015 on 6,928 people.
The municipality Kujalleq consists of three towns, 11 villages and 37 rural locations (sheep, reindeer breeding and animal husbandry).

Once you land in Narsarsuaq, you can’t miss the Blue Ice Café! A cozy rendez-vous for travelers, it is especially busy in the summer months, when the mountains in the South are full of hikers, many in need of good advice on the best routes.

Here, you can sit in the sun, surf the web, get a great cup of coffee and good advice on hiking trails and other tourism activities.

You can also visit the Narsarsuaq Museum, which is full of fascinating memorabilia from the American base, Bluie West One, that was once home to 12,000 people.

South Greenland is perfect to experience from a boat!
The distances between towns and villages are relatively short, so you come around quickly, and the sails are much more than a mode of transport. Sailing between icebergs and along the green mountain slopes is an indescribable experience of nature itself.

Blue Ice has regular service between Narsarsuaq, Narsaq and Qaqortoq in connection with direct flights to / from Copenhagen and Reykjavik in the summer. Rest of the year all sailing charter flights.

In addition, we service between the settlements Qassiarsuk and Itilleq (Igaliku) and sheep farms Sillisit and Ipiutaq almost every day in high season (July and August).

Jakobshavn Isbræ, also known as the Jakobshavn Glacier and Sermeq Kujalleq is a large outlet glacier in West Greenland.

Visible gold in quartz

It is one of the fastest moving glaciers, flowing at its terminus at speeds of around 20 metres per day. It produces around 10% of all Greenland icebergs. Some 35 billion tonnes of icebergs calve off and pass out of the fjord every year. Icebergs breaking from the glacier are often so large (up to a kilometer in height) that they are too tall to float down the fjord and lie stuck on the bottom of its shallower areas, sometimes for years, until they are broken up by the force of the glacier and icebergs further up the fjord. Studied for over 250 years, Jakobshavn Isbræ has helped develop our understanding of climate change and icecap glaciology.

Gold mines, are located about 40 km NE of Nanortalik, in South Greenland. Opened in 2003. Visible gold in quartz veins. Nalunaq Mine, Kirkespiret, Nanortalik

Visible gold in quartz

Narsarsuaq
South Greenland’s international airport is located on a large, flat expanse of glacial till. This is most travellers’ first encounter with South Greenland. There are about 160 inhabitants in the village and, aside from the airport, Narsarsuaq has a hotel, a shop, a school and – during the summer months – a hostel and a café. The airport and many of the buildings in Narsarsuaq were built by the Americans in 1941, when this remote airstrip code-named Bluie West One served as a key base of operations for U.S. aircraft on supply missions between America and Europe. You can find out more about this exciting history at the local museum, which is housed in the same building as the Blue Ice Café and has an impressive collection of photographs and artefacts that date back to this bygone era.

Narsarsuaq is the ideal starting point for excursions in the area. It only takes a few hours of hiking through magnificent scenery before you are rewarded with a view of the ice cap. You can visit the historic sites of Qassiarsuk (Brattahlid) and Igaliku (Gardar) on day trips, and you can join boat trips and helicopter tours to the ice cap.

How to Get there. There are direct flights to Narsarsuaq (South Greenland) from Denmark (Copenhagen) and Iceland (Keflavik) in the high season from mid-June to early September. See a detailed schedule of international flights (PDF).

Tickets can be purchased at the airlines’ websites:

Air Greenland flies from Copenhagen to Narsarsuaq on Tuesdays and Thursdays from mid-June to early September, with additional departures on Sundays from mid-July to mid-August. During the rest of the year, all flight connections to Narsarsuaq include a stopover in Kangerlussuaq or Nuuk.

Air Iceland operates from Reykjavik on Tuesdays and Saturdays from mid-June to the end of September, with additional departures on Thursdays in August.

Several airlines fly from Europe and the US to Denmark and Iceland.