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Uummannaq ___MASK69___ is a large ___MASK69___ ___MASK71___ in the northern part of western Greenland , the largest after Kangertittivaq ___MASK69___ in eastern Greenland . It has a roughly south - east to west - north - west orientation , emptying into the Baffin ___MASK42___ in the northwest . Geologically , a ___MASK69___ or fiord is a long , narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs , created by glacial erosion . There are many fjords on the coasts of Alaska , British Columbia , Chile , Greenland , Iceland , the Kerguelen Islands , New Zealand , Norway , Novaya Zemlya , Labrador , Nunavut , Newfoundland , Scotland , and Washington ___MASK80___ . Norway ' s coastline is estimated at with fjords , but only when fjords are excluded . Greenland is an autonomous ___MASK6___ within the ___MASK34___ between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans , east of the Canadian Arctic ___MASK63___ . Though physiographically a ___MASK90___ of the ___MASK99___ of North America , Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe ( specifically Norway and Denmark , the colonial powers , as well as the nearby island of Iceland ) for more than a millennium . The majority of its residents are Inuit , whose ancestors migrated began migrating from the Canadian mainland in the 13th century , gradually settling across the island . Inuit ( pronounced or ; Inuktitut : , " the ___MASK41___ ") are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland , Canada and Alaska . Inuit is a plural noun ; the singular is Inuk . The oral Inuit languages are classified in the Eskimo - Aleut ___MASK78___ . Inuit ___MASK44___ is a critically endangered language isolate spoken in Nunavut . The Arctic ( or ) is a polar ___MASK92___ located at the northernmost ___MASK90___ of Earth . The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean , adjacent seas , and parts of Alaska ( United States ), Canada , Finland , Greenland ( Denmark ), Iceland , Norway , Russia , and Sweden . Land within the Arctic ___MASK92___ has seasonally varying ___MASK88___ and ice cover , with predominantly treeless permafrost - containing tundra . Arctic seas contain seasonal ___MASK5___ ice in many places . Norway (; Norwegian : ( Bokmål ) or ( Nynorsk ); Sami : " Norgga "), officially the Kingdom of Norway , is a sovereign and unitary ___MASK75___ whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the island Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard . The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub - Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom . Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land . Until 1814 , the Kingdom included the Faroe Islands ( since 1035 ), Greenland ( 1261 ), and Iceland ( 1262 ). It also included Shetland and Orkney until 1468 . It also included the following provinces , now in Sweden : Jämtland , Härjedalen and Bohuslän . Uummannaq is a ___MASK91___ in the Qaasuitsup municipality , in northwestern Greenland . With 1 , 282 inhabitants in 2013 , it is the eleventh - largest ___MASK91___ in Greenland , and is home to the country ' s most northerly ferry terminal . Founded in 1763 as Ûmañak , the ___MASK91___ is a hunting and fishing base , with a canning factory and a marble quarry . In 1932 the Universal Greenland - Filmexpedition with director Arnold Fanck realized the film SOS Eisberg near Uummannaq . An ___MASK23___ is a place ( or ___MASK49___ of physical sites ) in which ___MASK16___ of past activity is preserved ( either prehistoric or historic or contemporary ), and which has been , or may be , investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record . Sites may range from those with few or no remains visible above ground , to buildings and other structures still in use . ___MASK43___ , or archeology , is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of ___MASK64___ . The archaeological record consists of artifacts , architecture , biofacts or ecofacts , and cultural landscapes . ___MASK43___ can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities . In North America , archaeology is considered a sub - ___MASK52___ of anthropology , while in Europe archaeology is often viewed as either a discipline in its own right or a sub - ___MASK52___ of other disciplines . Qilakitsoq is an ___MASK23___ on Nuussuaq ___MASK37___ , on the shore of Uummannaq ___MASK69___ in northwestern Greenland . Formally a settlement , it is famous for the discovery of eight mummified bodies in 1972 . Four of the mummies are currently on display in the Greenland National Museum . The archaeological record is the body of physical ( not written ) ___MASK16___ about the past . It is one of the core concepts in archaeology , the academic discipline concerned with documenting and interpreting the archaeological record . Archaeological theory is used to interpret the archaeological record for a better understanding of human cultures . The archaeological record can consist of the earliest ancient findings as well as contemporary artifacts . Human activity has had a large impact on the archaeological record . Destructive human processes , such as agriculture and land development , may damage or destroy potential archaeological sites . Other threats to the archaeological record include natural phenomena and scavenging . Archaeology can be a destructive science for the finite resources of the archaeological record are lost to excavation . Therefore archaeologists limit the amount of excavation that they do at each site and keep meticulous records of what is found . The archaeological record is the record of human ___MASK55___ , of why civilizations prosper or fail and why cultures change and grow . It is the story of the world that humans have created . North America is a ___MASK99___ entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere . It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas . It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean , to the east by the Atlantic Ocean , to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean , and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea . The ___MASK34___ is a ___MASK62___ comprising Denmark proper , The Faroe Islands and Greenland . Baffin ___MASK42___ ( Inuktitut : " Saknirutiak Imanga "; ), located between Baffin Island and the southwest coast of Greenland , is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean . It is connected to the Atlantic via Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea . The narrower Nares Strait connects Baffin ___MASK42___ with the Arctic Ocean . The ___MASK42___ is not navigable most of the year because of the ice cover and high density of floating ice and icebergs in the open areas . However , a polynya of about , known as the North Water , opens in summer on the north near Smith Sound . Most of the aquatic life of the ___MASK42___ is concentrated near that region . Extent . The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of Baffin ___MASK42___ as follows : History . The area of the ___MASK42___ has been inhabited since . Around 1200 , the initial Dorset settlers were replaced by the Thule ( the later Inuit ) peoples . Recent excavations also suggest that the Norse colonization of the Americas reached the shores of Baffin ___MASK42___ sometime between the 10th and 14th centuries . The English explorer John Davis was the first recorded European to enter the ___MASK42___ , arriving in 1585 . In 1612 , a group of English merchants formed the " Company of Merchants of London , Discoverers of the North - West Passage ". Their governor Thomas Smythe organized five expeditions to explore the northern coasts of Canada in search of a maritime passage to the Far East . Henry Hudson and Thomas Button ' s explored Hudson ___MASK42___ , William Gibbons Labrador , and Robert Bylot Hudson Strait and the area which became known as Baffin ' s ___MASK42___ after his pilot William Baffin . Aboard the " Discovery ", Baffin charted the area and named Lancaster , Smith , and Jones Sounds after members of his company . By the completion of his 1616 voyage , Baffin held out no hope of an ice - free passage and the area remained unexplored for another two centuries . Over time , his account came to be doubted until it was confirmed by John Ross ' s 1818 voyage . More advanced scientific studies followed in 1928 , in the 1930s and after World War II by Danish , American and Canadian expeditions . The ___MASK17___ of Iceland , " Lýðveldið Ísland " in Icelandic , is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean . It has a population of and an area of , making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe . The ___MASK14___ and largest city is Reykjavík . Reykjavík and the surrounding areas in the southwest of the country are home to over two - thirds of the population . Iceland is volcanically and geologically active . The interior consists of a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields , mountains and glaciers , while many glacial rivers flow to the ___MASK5___ through the lowlands . Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate , despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle . Its high latitude and marine influence still keeps summers chilly , with most of the archipelago having a tundra climate . Nuussuaq ___MASK37___ ( old spelling : " Nûgssuaq ") is a large ( 180x48 km ) ___MASK37___ in western Greenland . The Canadian Arctic ___MASK63___ , also known as the Arctic ___MASK63___ , is a ___MASK49___ of islands north of the Canadian mainland .