Cruises from Siorapaluk
Siorapaluk (West Greenlandic) or Hiurapaluk (Polar Eskimo) is a settlement in the Qaanaaq area of the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland. It lies 1250 km above the Arctic Circle, at the southern end of Nares Strat that separates Greenland and Ellesmere Island (Canada). Siorapaluk is one of the world's northernmost inhabited settlements and the northernmost settlement inhabited by natives. It has a population of 68 who speak the Inuktun language of the Polar Inuit as well as the Kalaallisut dialect of Greenlandic. Read more
Many of the inhabitants are direct descendants of the last migration of Inuit from Canada in the 20th century.