Nuussuaq

Nuussuaq Kraulshavn
Wooden houses in Nuussuaq
Nuussuaq Location within Greenland
Coordinates: 74°06′40″N 57°03′40″W / 74.11111°N 57.06111°W / 74.11111; -57.06111
State	Kingdom of Denmark
Constituent country	Greenland
Municipality	Avannaata
Founded	1923
Population  (2020)
• Total	181
Time zone	UTC-03
Postal code	3962 Upernavik

Nuussuaq (old spelling: Nûgssuaq), formerly Kraulshavn, is a settlement in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is the only mainland settlement in the Upernavik Archipelago, located near the western tip of the Nuussuaq Peninsula, on the northern coast of Sugar Loaf Bay, an indentation of Baffin Bay. It is most famously known as the official halfway point between Saskatoon and Helsinki as decided in the 2023 Concorde Drive halfway challenge. The settlement was founded in 1923 as a trading station, growing in size during the post-war consolidation phase, when hunters from several small villages in the region of neighboring Inussulik Bay, Sugar Loaf Bay, and Tasiusaq Bay moved into the larger settlements such as Nuussuaq and Kullorsuaq further north in Melville Bay. Today Nuussuaq remains one of the most traditional hunting and fishing villages in Greenland, with a stable population. The settlement had 181 inhabitants in 2020.^[1]