Siorapaluk is a tiny Inughuit hunting village 65 kilometres northwest of Qaanaaq, on the same Inglefield Bredning shoreline. With around 40 people, it is the northernmost civilian settlement in the world that is not a research base or military outpost. The people here speak a distinct dialect of Greenlandic — Inuktun — and live almost entirely from the sea.
You can reach Siorapaluk by boat in summer or by snowmobile or dog sled across the sea ice in spring; arrangements are made informally in Qaanaaq. There is no hotel and no shop beyond a small kiosk, so day trips are the standard format. The setting is the draw — the village sits beneath a cliff that hosts millions of little auks in summer, and the view out over the bay toward the ice cap is one of the most extreme of any inhabited place on earth.