Kangilinnguit

Kangilinnguit (old spelling: Kangilínguit, Danish: Grønnedal) is a settlement and a naval base in the Sermersooq municipality, located at the mouth of Arsuk Fjord in southwestern Greenland. The settlement had 160 inhabitants in 2010, most of whom are Danish Navy personnel, attached to Island Command Greenland headquarters. A road, roughly 5 kilometers long, between Kangilinnguit and Ivittuut make them the only towns in Greenland connected by roads. Kangilinnguit was founded as 'Green Valley' by the United States Navy during the Second World War to protect the highly strategic cryolite quarry in the former settlement of Ivittuut. The U.S. Navy turned the base over to the Danish Navy in August 1951. During the early years of the Cold War,...