Uummannaq is 700 kilometres n of the Arctic Circle, just n of Disko Island. Qaanaaq (Thule) lies several one c miles farther northerly. the town has a people of as much as 1,500 & is at home to Greenland's virtually all northward ferry terminal.

Uummannaq is placed in an island (Uummannaq Island) which is also page to Uummannaq Mountain. It rises super sharply to the height of 1170m. Climbing it takes technical indicator skills. A mountain is heart-cordate. Indeed Uummannaq is Greenlandic for "heart-shaped".

Danish and Greenlandic children suppose that Santa Claus lives on the bay of Spraglebugten on the west of the island. The turf hut (''Santa's Castle'') was built there for the Danish television programme & remains Santa's range in the popular imagination.

Uummannaq Fjord is a general title given to the series of recess into the Greenlandic mainland n of the head at Niaqornat on the Nuussuaq Peninsula.

Air Greenland operates air services to Uummannaq. Additionally to existence the hunting & camping base, there is the canning manufactory & a marble quarry placed nearby.