Ataa

{{Infobox settlement

|name = Ataa

|image_skyline = Ataa, Greenland.jpg

|imagesize = 300px

|image_caption = Abandoned buildings in Ataa

|pushpin_map = Greenland

|pushpin_label_position =

|pushpin_map_caption = Location within Greenland

|pushpin_mapsize = 300

| subdivision_type = Sovereign state

| subdivision_name = {{Flag|Kingdom of Denmark}}

| subdivision_type1 = Autonomous country

| subdivision_name1 = {{Flag|Greenland}}

| subdivision_type2 = Municipality

| subdivision_name2 = Avannaata

| subdivision_type3 =

| subdivision_name3 =

|established_title =

|established_date =

|extinct_title = Abandoned

|extinct_date = 1960

|timezone = UTC-03

|coordinates = {{coord|69|45|31.5|N|50|56|06.6|W|region:GL|display=inline,title}}

}}

Ataa was a settlement in the Disko Bay region of western Greenland. It was located on the eastern coast of Alluttoq Island, approximately {{convert|60|km|mi|abbr=on}} to the north of Ilulissat and {{convert|30|km|mi|abbr=on}} to the southeast of Qeqertaq.

History

The settlement was abandoned around 1960. It served as a backdrop for the 1997 Danish film Smilla's Sense of Snow, an adaptation of Peter Høeg's 1992 novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow.{{cite book|last=O'Carroll|first=Etain|title=Greenland and the Arctic|publisher=Lonely Planet|pages=179|date=2005|isbn=1-74059-095-3}}

References

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{{Abandoned sites in Greenland}}

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Category:Disko Bay

Category:Former populated places in Greenland

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