{{Short description|Town in Greenland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use British English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Qasigiannguit |other_name = Christianshåb |image_skyline = Qasigiannguit-aerial.jpg |imagesize = 300px |image_caption = Aerial view of Qasigiannguit |image_shield = |shield_size = |pushpin_map = Greenland |pushpin_label_position = |pushpin_map_caption = Location within Greenland |pushpin_mapsize = 300 | subdivision_type = State | subdivision_name = {{Flag|Kingdom of Denmark}} | subdivision_type1 = Constituent country | subdivision_name1 = {{Flag|Greenland}} | subdivision_type2 = Municipality | subdivision_name2 = Qeqertalik | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = |government_footnotes = |leader_title = |leader_name = |established_title = Founded |established_date = 1734 |population_as_of = 2025 |population_total = 952<ref name="localpop">{{cite web|title = Population by Localities|url = http://bank.stat.gl/pxweb/en/Greenland/Greenland__BE__BE01__BE0120/BEXST4.PX/?rxid=a1551b20-d1d5-4bcf-a80c-de114c001595|publisher = Statistical Greenland|access-date = 19 July 2020|archive-date = 19 July 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200719030202/http://bank.stat.gl/pxweb/en/Greenland/Greenland__BE__BE01__BE0120/BEXST4.PX/?rxid=a1551b20-d1d5-4bcf-a80c-de114c001595|url-status = dead}}</ref> | timezone1 = Western Greenland Time | utc_offset1 = −02:00 | timezone1_DST = Western Greenland Summer Time | utc_offset1_DST = −01:00 |coordinates = {{coord|68|49|12.52|N|51|11|35.67|W|region:GL|display=inline,title}} |postal_code_type = Postal code |postal_code = 3951 |website = }} thumb|Qasigiannguit in July 2014 '''Qasigiannguit'''<ref>The pre-1973 spelling was '''Kasigianguit'''. It is also sometimes written as '''Qasigianguit'''.</ref> ({{IPA|kl|qaˌsiɣiˈaŋːuit}}), also known as '''Christianshåb''',<ref>The pre-1948 spelling was '''Christianshaab'''.</ref> is a town located in western Greenland on the southeastern shore of Disko Bay in the Qeqertalik municipality. With 1,081 inhabitants in 2020,<ref name="localpop"/> it is the thirteenth-largest town in Greenland. The main industry is shrimp and halibut fishing.
== History == [[File:Christian VI, King of Denmark.jpg|left|thumb|Portrait of Christian VI by Johann Salomon Wahl who had Christianshåb named in his honour]] The settlement was founded as a trading post for Jacob Severin's company in 1734<ref name="ole!">Marquardt, Ole. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=FZQcjsSitEcC&pg=PA149 Change and Continuity in Denmark's Greenland Policy]" in ''The Oldenburg Monarchy: An Underestimated Empire?''. Verlag Ludwig (Kiel), 2006.</ref> and named '''Christianshaab''' in honour of King Christian VI of Denmark.<ref name="BibNar">Del, Anden. "[http://www.ilisimatusarfik.gl/Portals/0/Ekstern/Generelt/Dokumenter/Gr%C3%B8nland%20som%20del%20af%20den%20bibelske%20fort%C3%A6lling%20-%20Ph.d.-afhandling.pdf ''Grønland som del af den bibelske fortælling – en 1700-tals studie''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715044721/http://www.ilisimatusarfik.gl/Portals/0/Ekstern/Generelt/Dokumenter/Gr%C3%B8nland%20som%20del%20af%20den%20bibelske%20fort%C3%A6lling%20-%20Ph.d.-afhandling.pdf |date=July 15, 2012 }}" ["Greenland as Part of the Biblical Narrative – a Study of the 18th-Century"]. {{in lang|da}}</ref> The name was sometimes anglicized as '''Christian's Hope'''.<ref>i.a., Lieber, Francis & al. ''Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography''. "[https://books.google.com/books?id=M4JRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA52 Greenland]". B.B. Mussey & Co., 1854.</ref>
Paul Egede's former residence is Greenland's oldest surviving wooden building. It was completed on 25 July 1734<ref>{{cite book|last=O'Carroll|first=Etain|title=Greenland and the Arctic|publisher=Lonely Planet|pages=181|year=2005|isbn=1-74059-095-3}}</ref> and moved to its present site in 1806 owing to the heavy wind at its original location across the bay. In 1997, a museum was officially opened in the Egede house. In the summer of 1999, an archaeological discovery provided the museum with a collection of finds from different prehistoric cultures.<ref>[http://museum.gl/qasigiannguit/uk/illuutit/index.htm Museum] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922225203/http://museum.gl/qasigiannguit/uk/illuutit/index.htm |date=September 22, 2010 }}.</ref>
== Transport ==
=== Air === {{main|Qasigiannguit Heliport}} During the winter, Air Greenland operates air services from the town heliport to Ilulissat, Qeqertarsuaq on Disko Island and Aasiaat.<ref name="gl">{{cite web |url=http://book.airgreenland.com/ |publisher=Air Greenland |title=Booking system |access-date=8 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100422211033/http://book.airgreenland.com/ |archive-date=22 April 2010 }}</ref>
=== Sea === During summer and autumn, when the waters of Disko Bay are navigable, communication between settlements is by sea only, serviced by Diskoline.<ref>[http://diskoline.gl/index.php?page_label=schedule Diskoline timetable] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090522055345/http://diskoline.gl/index.php?page_label=schedule |date=May 22, 2009 }}</ref> The ferry links Qasigiannguit with Ilulissat, Aasiaat, Ikamiut, Akunnaaq, and Qeqertarsuaq.
== Population == With 1,081 inhabitants as of 2020, Qasigiannguit is the second-largest town in the Qeqertalik municipality.<ref name="localpop"/> The town is steadily depopulating, with the population having decreased by more than 27% relative to the 1990 levels and by nearly 17% relative to the 2000 levels.<ref name="localpop"/>
{{wide image|Qasigiannguit-population-dynamics.png|1000px|alt=Qasigiannguit population dynamics|Qasigiannguit population growth dynamics, 1991-2010. (Source: Statistics Greenland)<ref name="localpop"/>}}
== References == {{reflist|2}}
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