Paamiut

Greenland

Paamiut is a small town on the west coast of Greenland, south of Nuuk, facing the Davis Strait. A historic trading station founded in 1742, it preserves fine colonial architecture including a wooden church from 1909. Visitors encounter a quiet Greenlandic community, the local museum in the old buildings, the storks — the town's namesake eagles that gave the area its name — sea fishing and hunting culture, and the fjords and skerries of the southwest coast.