Narsarsuaq, Greenland

The multilingual safety card at the Hotel Narsarsuaq let me deduce that the Greenlandic word for fire must be ikuallattoqartillugu, and is unusual only for having such a low percentage of Qs. Which concluded my study of the language. The hotel is a repurposed barracks from Bluie West One, a World War II airfield built by the U.S. Army on a glacial flat far up the Tunulliarfik Fjord. The airfield now serves as the transportation hub of southern Greenland, and the town of Narsarsuaq (pop. 160) exists to run it.

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