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Akilineq

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of the 1880s Danish polar expedition recorded east Greenlanders as describing Akilineq as a land far to the east, which by evidence Holm took to refer to Iceland.
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The term was also used to refer to one or several trading sites where the Inuit and neighbouring peoples would meet, by the Akilineq Hills at the mouth of the
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One theory notes that the term was used in West Greenland to refer to the territories across
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In Order to Live Untroubled: Inuit of the Central Arctic 1550 To 1940
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Caribou Inuit traders of the Kivalliq Nunavut, Canada
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Index

Inuit language
Davis Strait
Labrador Peninsula
Baffin Island
Gustav Holm
Thelon River
Lake Aberdeen
The American Discovery of Europe
ISBN
978-0-252-03152-6
In Order to Live Untroubled: Inuit of the Central Arctic 1550 To 1940
ISBN
978-0-88755-328-8
Encyclopedia of the Arctic
ISBN
978-1-57958-436-8
Caribou Inuit traders of the Kivalliq Nunavut, Canada
ISBN
978-1-4073-0377-2
Categories
Inuit culture
Mythological places
Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact

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