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Port of Ilulissat

port in Greenland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ60785716 ↗
Source-derived summary

Port and Harbour of Ilulissat is an Atlantic port in Disko Bay at Ilulissat, Greenland.

Accessible most of the year, it is operated by Royal Arctic Line, Arctic Umiaq Line and Royal Greenland. The harbour can be restricted during winter due to sea ice. The inner port area is home to a marina for smaller vessels and ferry and larger vessels to the west side of the port area.

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“Port of Ilulissat” enters the record as port in Greenland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Port, Ilulissat and port can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 69-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Port, Ilulissat and port.
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“Port of Ilulissat” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Port, Ilulissat and port provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q60785716. Authority coordinates are 69.222, -51.095. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Port of Ilulissat” 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.