The town has a population of 656 as of 2013.[17]HistoryThe Qaanaaq area in northern Greenland was first settled around 2000 BC by the Paleo-Eskimo migrating from the Canadian Arctic.The town of Qaanaaq was established in the winter of 1953 when the United States expanded their airbase at Thule and forcibly relocated the population of Pituffik and Dundas 31 km (19 mi) to the north within four days during the height of the Cold War.
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