Nanortalik

	NANORTALIK Country: Denmark Country: Greenland Incorporated into: 2009 Kujalleq Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":60.13969999999999771489456179551780223846435546875,"lon":-45.2428000000000025693225325085222721099853515625,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
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Origin/meaning

The arms were granted in 1970.

The arms are canting; Nanortalik means the city of bears (Nanoq=polar bear). Often polar bears on drift ice end up in Nanortalik. Normally there are no polar bears in the area.

Image gallery

The arms on a cover

Literature : Achen, S.T. : Danmarks Kommunevåbener. Komma, København, 1982.

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