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Niaqornaarsuk Heliport

heliport in Greenland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ4993127 ↗
Source-derived summary

Niaqornaarsuk Heliport (IATA: QMK, ICAO: BGNK) is a heliport in Niaqornaarsuk, a village in Avannaata municipality in western Greenland. The heliport is considered a helistop, and is served by Air Greenland as part of a government contract.

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The public source identifies “Niaqornaarsuk Heliport” as heliport in Greenland. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Niaqornaarsuk, Heliport and heliport.

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This entry incorporates text from “Niaqornaarsuk Heliport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.