Godthaab
Britishnoun
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By the late 1970s, the capital was called Nuuk and no longer Godthaab, its official name for well over two centuries.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025
After making aerial studies of the mouth of Labrador's Northwest River as a seaplane base possibly superior to Cartwright, the Lindberghs hurdled Davis Strait 400 mi. to Godthaab on the west coast of Greenland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later, with the St. Yves plying between the Banks boats and St. Pierre-Miquelon and Godthaab in Greenland, Father Yvon will bring more mail and necessary supplies.
From Time Magazine Archive
She arrived uneventfully at Godthaab, capital of Greenland, and one day last week put to sea again bound for Copenhagen on the homeward leg of her maiden run.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later the Godthaab, which took the missionary expedition to the northernmost Eskimo settlement at North Star Bay and then returned, arrived from Cape York with Knud Rassmussen and other Danes aboard.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.
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