
Aqqusinersuaq is a major street in
Nuuk
Nuuk (; da, Nuuk, formerly ) is the capital and largest city of Greenland, a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark. Nuuk is the seat of government and the country's largest cultural and economic centre. The major cities from other co ...
,
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is ...
. The street runs through the
City Centre
A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart of a city. The term "city centre" is primarily used in British English, and closely equivalent terms exist in other languages, such as "" in Fren ...
with one lane in either direction. It begins at the
Nuuk Port and Harbour heading south and turns north at Sipisaq Kujalleq and then northwest at 400-talik
roundabout
A roundabout is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically given to traffic already in the junction.''The New Shorter Oxford E ...
(where it meets Eqalugalinnguit) and ends when it meets HJ Rinksvej Aqqutaa.
The road runs through Nuuk's business centre, and many of the city's major landmarks are located along or nearby the street such as
Hotel Hans Egede,
Nuuk's City Hall (Nuuk Rådhus), and the
Bank of Greenland
The BANK of Greenland ( da, GrønlandsBANKEN) is one of two commercial banks in Greenland, listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange as GRLA, with 2,700 shareholders in 2017. Headquartered in Nuuk, the bank had 118 employees in 2017.
History
The ...
. Aqqusinersuaq also housed
Blok P
Blok P, in Nuuk, was the largest residential building in all of Greenland. It contained around 320 apartments and it is said that approximately 1% of the total population of the entire island lived in the building. The building was demolished on ...
, a notorious apartment building that was demolished in 2012.
References
Nuuk
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