page_title: Kulusuk
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Kulusuk / Transport
caption_attribution_description: English: Front view of an Air Greenland de Havilland Canada Dash-7 "Papikkaaq" parked at Kulusuk Airport, Greenland.
context_page_description: Kulusuk, formerly Kap Dan, is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland, located on an island of the same name. The settlement population of 241 includes many Danes choosing to live there due to the airport. In the Kalaallisut language, the name of the village means "Chest of a Black Guillemot".
context_section_description: The village is served by Kulusuk Airport, one of two international airports in eastern Greenland. It provides direct connections to Nuuk on the western coast, Reykjavík in Iceland, and Tasiilaq on Ammassalik Island, which links many other villages in the region through settlement helicopter flights.
  In the summer, the cargo boats of Royal Arctic Line connect Kulusuk and Tasiilaq, providing an ad hoc alternative for the helicopter flights of Air Greenland.
  In the winter, the inhabitants of the village use snowmobiles and traditional dogsleds as additional means of transport−families arriving at the airport are ferried to the settlement on both. Dogsleds are then left briefly untended, albeit accidental escapes amongst the dogs are rendered impossible through overturning the sled, and binding of the front paws of the dog pack leaders.
caption: de Havilland Canada Dash 7 "Papikkaaq" of Air Greenland at Kulusuk Airport. The route to Nuuk is the only domestic route in the country that crosses the icesheet, linking the western and eastern coasts of Greenland.
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