Siorapaluk
{{Short description|Place in Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox settlement
|name = Siorapaluk
|other_name = Hiurapaluk
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| subdivision_type = State
| subdivision_name = {{Flag|Kingdom of Denmark}}
| subdivision_type1 = Constituent country
| subdivision_name1 = {{Flag|Greenland}}
| subdivision_type2 = Municipality
| subdivision_name2 = Avannaata
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|population_as_of = 2020
|population_total = 43
| timezone1 = Western Greenland Time
| utc_offset1 = −02:00
| timezone1_DST = Western Greenland Summer Time
| utc_offset1_DST = −01:00
|postal_code_type = Postal code
|postal_code = 3971 Qaanaaq
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Siorapaluk (West Greenlandic) or Hiurapaluk (Polar Inuit) is a settlement in the Qaanaaq area of the Avannaata municipality in northern Greenland. The settlement is located in the northern shore of the Siorapaluup Kangerlua (Robertson Fjord).{{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/20007934|title=Siorapaluk|work=Mapcarta|access-date=27 March 2019}} It has a population of 43{{cite web|title= Population by Localities| work=StatBank |url = http://bank.stat.gl/pxweb/en/Greenland/Greenland__BE__BE01__BE0120/BEXST4.PX/?rxid=a1551b20-d1d5-4bcf-a80c-de114c001595|publisher = Statistical Greenland}} who speak the Inuktun language of the Polar Inuit as well as the Kalaallisut dialect of Greenlandic. Many of the inhabitants are direct descendants of the last migration of Inuit from Canada in the 20th century.{{cite web|url=https://kommuneplania.avannaata.gl/en/towns-and-settlements/siorapaluk/|title=Siorapaluk|work=avannaata.gl|access-date=12 May 2025}}
Siorapaluk is the northernmost inhabited public settlement in Greenland, and one of the northernmost such settlements in the world, surpassed only by a few villages in Svalbard. It is also the world's northernmost place inhabited by natives.
Geography
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Hunting
There is good hunting in the area of the settlement, and the cliffs around it function as breeding grounds for dovekie (UK English: little auk) (Alle alle) and the thick-billed murre (UK English: Brünnich's guillemot) (Uria lomvia). There are many Arctic foxes and Arctic hares in the area and an abundance of seals and walruses which are hunted.
Infrastructure
Siorapaluk has an electrical power plant, direct satellite radio and TV-broadcasting, a well stocked store and telephone service. The settlement's school is combined with its church and a small public library. Although there are no resident medical facilities, the settlement is visited regularly by a physician and a dentist.
Transport
{{main|Siorapaluk Heliport}}
Air Greenland operates settlement flights to Qaanaaq Airport and to Savissivik Heliport via Pituffik Space Base.{{cite web |url=http://book.airgreenland.com/ |publisher=Air Greenland |title=Booking system |access-date=9 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100422211033/http://book.airgreenland.com/ |archive-date=22 April 2010 }} The distance to Qaanaaq is 45 km. The twice-weekly flights are subsidized by the Government of Greenland. Transfers at the airbase are subject to access restrictions by the Danish Foreign Ministry.{{cite web|url=http://airgreenland.com/information/voresdestinationer/flybilletter_til_pituffik_thule/|title=Air Greenland|website=airgreenland.com|access-date=29 June 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617204451/http://airgreenland.com/information/voresdestinationer/flybilletter_til_pituffik_thule/|archive-date=17 June 2010}}
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Population
{{wide image|Siorapaluk-population-dynamics.png|1000px|alt=Siorapaluk population dynamics|Siorapaluk population growth dynamics in the last two decades. Source: Statistics Greenland[http://bank2.stat.gl/ Statistics Greenland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812052835/http://bank2.stat.gl/ |date=2011-08-12 }}}}
References
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{{Settlements in Greenland}}
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