Nuugaatsiaq
Ghost town · Greenland
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 0
- Coordinates
- 71.535, -53.212
Why it was abandoned
☢️ Disaster
Detected automatically from the text: It had 84 inhabitants in 2010, but was abandoned after a tsunami struck in 2017.
History
Nuugaatsiaq is a now abandoned settlement in the Avannaata municipality, in northwestern Greenland, located on an island off the southern coast of Sigguup Nunaa peninsula, in the Uummannaq Fjord basin. It had 84 inhabitants in 2010, but was abandoned after a tsunami struck in 2017.