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Itilleq has just 89 residents. The main industry is fishing, and they have a small fish processing plant in the long blue building near the water. There is a school and a helicopter pad. The settlement had arranged a Kaffemik for us all. This is a traditional event where people are welcomed into homes for food and hot drinks.Once tendered to shore we were told to match a color square to a sign on a house that had the same color. That search took us all over the community unti

Uummannaq Mountain and Island Uummannaq means "heart-shaped mountain" in Greenlandic. The island was named after its split-topped mountain. The "heart shape" of the mountain resembles the heart of a seal. We arrived in beautiful Uummannaq just as the morning fog was lifting. The sun came out and it was warm. According to a local man I spoke with, the weather was unseasonably warm. They hadn't had much rain so far this year. At the dock, the view looking out from Uummannaq was