page_title: Upernavik
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Upernavik / History
caption_attribution_description: Dansk: Kirken i Upernavik, Grønland. Billedet er sammensat af 3x3 seperate billeder i Hugin i rektangulær projektion. Pga. parallakse fejl har billedet beklagevis nogle tekniske fejl i sammenføjningerne, som jeg ikke har fundet muligt at fjerne trods ihærdig indsats. English: The church in Upernavik, Greenland. The image is a composite of 3x3 individual handheld photos taken with a Canon IXUS 800 IS camera and stitched in Hugin using a rectangular projection. Croppped and downsampled to 2500x2500 in GIMP. Unfortunately the final result has obvious and (I think) non-recoverable stitching errors due to parallax movement of the camera.
context_page_description: Upernavik is a small town in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, located on a small island of the same name. With 1,092 inhabitants as of 2020, it is the twelfth-largest town in Greenland. It contains the Upernavik Museum.
context_section_description: The town was founded as Upernavik in 1772. From the former name of its island, it was sometimes known as Women's Island; its name was also sometimes Anglicized to "Uppernavik".
  In 1824, the Kingittorsuaq Runestone was found outside the town. It bears runic characters left by Norsemen, probably from the late 13th century. The runic characters list the names of three Norsemen and mention the construction of a rock cairn nearby.
  
  This is the furthest north that any Norse artifacts have been found, other than those small artifacts that could have been carried north by Inuit traders, and marks the northern known limit of Viking exploration.
caption: New church
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