Nuuk Fjord

Nuuk fjord reaches far inland from Greenland's southwestern coast, branching between mountains toward the ice sheet. Its valleys and those of neighboring Ameralik held farms of the Norse Western Settlement, where people kept livestock and hunted the animals of the sea. At the fjord's mouth the Inuit settlement of Nuuk later became the site of Godthåb, founded in 1728 when the Danish-Norwegian colony was moved there. The fjord linked the coast with a wide interior landscape of sheltered water and scattered settlements.