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Ice cap
Point 660 Ice Sheet
The point at the ice-cap edge, about 35 km from Kangerlussuaq, where the dirt road from the settlement ends. From there you walk with a guide onto the ice cap.
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Kangerlussuaq
In the destination Kangerlussuaq and the ice cap.
In the photo: The village of Kangerlussuaq, between low buildings and tundra hills.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
What to expect from Kangerlussuaq.
A settlement of a few hundred people at the head of the long Kangerlussuaq fjord, formed around a former U.S. airbase. It has the country’s driest and most stable climate and is the easiest place to reach the ice cap by road, along a dirt track to Point 660. The surrounding tundra has muskoxen and reindeer, and the Arctic Circle Trail begins here.
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The local experience
What to see in Kangerlussuaq
Glacier
Russell Glacier
A tongue of ice that descends from the ice cap down to the tundra east of Kangerlussuaq, with a front tens of meters high. It lies along the road toward Point 660.
Museum
Kangerlussuaq Museum
Small museum next to the airport that tells the history of the former American air base, opened in 1941, and of the settlement that grew around it.
Trail
Arctic Circle Trail
Long-distance trail between Kangerlussuaq and Sisimiut, covering more than 150 km across tundra, lakes and valleys north of the Arctic Circle, usually completed in one to two weeks.