Ikerasak is a village in the Qaasuitsup

Qaasuitsup

Qaasuitsup is a new municipality in Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. As of January 2010 its population is 17,749. The administrative center of the municipality is in Ilulissat...

 municipality in western Greenland

Greenland

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

. It had 238 inhabitants in 2010.

Geography

Ikerasak is located approximately 45 km southeast from Uummannaq

Uummannaq

Uummannaq is a town in the Qaasuitsup municipality, in northwestern Greenland. With 1,299 inhabitants as of 2010, it is the eleventh-largest town in Greenland, and is home to the country's most northerly ferry terminal...

, at the southeastern end of Ikerasak Island

Ikerasak Island

Ikerasak Island is an island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland, located in the southeastern part of Uummannaq Fjord, at the mouth of Ikerasak Fjord, its innermost section.- Geography :...

 in the northwestern part of Ikerasak Fjord

Ikerasak Fjord

Ikerasak Fjord is a fjord in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :The fjord constitutes the innermost part of the Uummannaq Fjord at the base of Nuussuaq Peninsula...

, where it widens into the inner part of Uummannaq Fjord

Uummannaq Fjord

Uummannaq Fjord is a large fjord system in the northern part of western Greenland, the largest after Kangertittivaq fjord in eastern Greenland...

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Transport

Air Greenland

Air Greenland

Air Greenland A/S is the flag carrier airline of Greenland, jointly owned by the government of Greenland, the SAS Group, and the government of Denmark...

 serves the village as part of government contract, with flights between Ikerasak Heliport

Ikerasak Heliport

Ikerasak Heliport is a heliport in Ikerasak, a village on an island of the same name in the Uummannaq Fjord system in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland...

 and Uummannaq Heliport

Uummannaq Heliport

Uummannaq Heliport is a heliport in Uummannaq, a town located on Uummannaq Island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. There are no facilities in the heliport.-Airlines and destinations:...

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Population

The population of Ikerasak has fluctuated over the last two decades, slightly decreasing in the last several years.