Geography
A big island of the Aasiaat archipelago is Saqqarliup Nunaa, which is uninhabited, however has buildings to accommodate tourer. On the american tip of the island is the abandoned village of Manermiut. A municipality has threesome settlements: The town of Aasiaat, pop. Three 100 (Jan. I, 2005), is on the namesake island upright northwest of Saqqarliup Nunaa. The village of Akunnaaq (Akúnâk), pop. 101 (Jan. Single, 2005) is on the namesake island upright nor'-east of Saqqarliup Nunaa, Twenty-three kilometre ENE of Aasiaat town. The village of Kitsissuarsuit is on the little namesake island (Danish Hunde Ejland, for a village and the island), Xxi kilometre northwest of Aasiat town.

A second abandoned village is Vester Ejland on a namesake island, the westernmost of the archipelago, Xxix klick WSW of Aasiaat town.

History
Native peoples
Archaeological projects in a vicinity keep around suggested man habitation in the region that includes Aasiaat when far back when the 5th millennium BC. A earliest modern settlers dated to in 1200; these were probably subsistence hunters. These denizen hunted harp seals and capelin (ammassaat) near Sydøst Bay in the spring. In the summer, they moved to Nordre Strømfjord for reindeer and halibut. Within autumn, the humans of Disko Bay returned personal to hunt little harp seals. In the winter, the bay froze over, & it hunted narwhals and Beluga whales. These early population designed & built their have kayaks and umiaks when a a stream disentangled higher; in the wintertime, it utilized dogsleds.

Early history of Aasiaat
A award that would be Aasiaat was founded around 1759 by Neils Egede, the boy Hans Egede a Norwegian missionary. Known as Egedesminde Colony fallowing him, it was placed n of Nordre Strømfjord, & was 125 kilometer south of Aasiaat's todays location. A town was moved to its todays places inside 1763. Virtually all villagers were whalers, and a smallpox germs they carried to the region was harmful to the native people, especially in the 1770s. However per beginning of the 19th century, the people got stabilized & was rising slowly. It grew from either 390 around 1805 to 1,269 in 1901.

Early 20th century
Aasiaat saw tremendously incubation in the number 1 half of the 20th century.

Aasiaat in World War II
In May 3, 1940, a pact check in Godhavn allowed American relief airplanes attached for the British Isles to use Greenlandic, Icelandic, and Scottish airspace. The symptom of World War II was the fact that Denmark, under the control of Nazi Germany, could not freely send the diapers to Greenl&; this project fell to the United States and Canada. The diapers were stored touching Aasiaat, & were so transferred to more towns of the region, like Uummannaq and Sisimiut.

Post-War
Aasiaat has grown tremendously since a war. The weather station was constructed in 1942 by the Americans. Cod, an economically popular fish since the 1930s, were caught and sent to the newly manufactory to become salted and packed. More businesses rise, accommodative to the resources & climate of the area. This boom reached its peak in the 1950s, when the power plant and telecommunications station were installed.

Inside 1998, a newly landing strip was opened to the public; it is touching the shrimp processing factory. Now, nigh 4,800 population sleep in a Aasiaat & its neighboring territorial dominion, Kangaatsiaq.

Economy
Fishing of shrimp and crabs, shipbuilding, and tourism are the primary economic activities of the region.

Education
Aasiaat has quartet schools: the regular school, the vocational school, and the school for the physically disabled, and the school for musicians.

Tourism
A locality inside & in a municipality offers numbers of services for holidaymaker, including kayaking, cross-country skiing, dogsledding, and whale-watching.