Ammassalik
Also spelled �Angmagssalik,� town, southeastern Greenland, on the south coast of Ammassalik Island. The island is 25 miles (40 km) long and 12 - 20 miles (19 - 32 km) wide, with a high point of 4,336 feet (1,322 m). Although Europeans landed as early as 1472, the region was not explored until 1884, when Gustav Holm, a Dane, mapped the coast. A trading and mission station was established in 1895 to help sustain the Greenlandic (Eskimo) population with imported
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