Tag: Mittarfeqarfiit

I already got a reply from the headquarterss of Mittarfeqarfiit in Nuuk confirming my reception of NDB CP Nerlerit Inaat on 386 kHz. But it so much nicer to get a response from the Airport Manager of Nerlerit Inaat Aiport himself.

Mr. Mandrup was so kind so send me an envelope full of Nerlerit Inaat souvenirs. And I have to admit… visiting Greenland is on my bucket list.

Receiving signals from the Arctic is always something special as they originate from very remote and often special locations. My reception of NDB CP Constable Pynt / Nerlerit Inaat on 386 kHz is no exception. Below my Pskov recording of the NDB CP signal (with red marks to emphasize the -.-. .–. morse code for CP)

The Nerlerit Inaat airport was built in 1985 by the US oil company ARCO in connection with oil exploration in Jameson Land. It was sold to Greenland in 1990. The airport has around 15 employees, who have their home within the airport area.

No other settlement is reachable by road, making the airport possibly the one with smallest population reachable by road in the world. There is a road to a seaport around 2 km south of the terminal building, and some other roads in the area.

With connecting flights to Akureyri and Reykjavik in Iceland the airport acts as stopping off point for a number of expeditions into Jameson Land and Northeast Greenland National Park. More importantly maybe, it connects by helicopter to the settlement of Ittoqqortoormiit, with a population of 325 (in 2025). The settlement is situated 40 kilometers south east of the airport. The name Ittoqqortoormiit means “big house dwellers” in the Eastern Greenlandic dialect.

Ittoqqortoormiit was founded in 1925 by Ejnar Mikkelsen and some 80 Inuit settlers (70 persons from Tasiilaq and four families from western Greenland). They were brought on the ship Gustav Holm and settled 400 kilometres south of the last known Inuit settlement in northeastern Greenland. The settlement was encouraged by colonial power Denmark who at the time wanted to increase their presence in North Eastern Greenland.