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Jakobshavn
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Jakobshavn 

a city in western Greenland, on Disko Bay. Population, 3,600 (1971). Jakobshavn, a fishing port, has enterprises for the processing of fish. The city was founded in 1741.



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The Ilulissat glacier and icefjord have been on UNESCO's world heritage list since 2004 and is the most visited site in Greenland, its ice and pools of emerald-blue water admired by tourists and studied by scientists and politicians around the world.
About half way up at the west coast, at 69 degrees north, comfortably inside the Arctic circle, Ilulissat is an honest-looking (scruffy) little town, with a busy prawn processing factory.
Secretary Rice will lead a delegation to Ilulissat, Greenland, for a conference on Arctic territorial claims on May 27-29.
 
 
 
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