History of Narsarsuaq

Narsarsuaq is located by the Eastern Settlement of the Norsemen, which existed in the times of Erik the Red, whose important Brattahlíð farm is believed to have been located west of Narsarsuaq, in Qassiarsuk across the Tunulliarfik Fjord. There are the traces of the early Norse settlement and a replica of the first Christian church on the American continent.

In 1941, the United States built an air base at Narsarsuaq called Bluie West One. Thousands of planes used BW1 as a stepping stone on their way from the aircraft factories in North America to the battlegrounds of