Sisimiut / Holsteinsborg, is a town in central-western
Greenland, located on the coast of Davis Strait, approximately 320 km
(200 mi) north of Nuuk. It is the administrative center of the Qeqqata
Municipality and the second-largest town in Greenland, with a population of
5,598 people in 2013. The site of the present-day town has been inhabited for
the last 4,500 years. The first inhabitants were the Inuit peoples of the Saqqaq
culture, Dorset culture, and then the Thule people, whose descendants form the
majority of the current population. Artifacts from the early settlement era can
be found
