Ataa | |
Pushpin Map: | Greenland |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Greenland |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type: | Sovereign state |
Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous country |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Avannaata |
Extinct Title: | Abandoned |
Extinct Date: | 1960 |
Timezone: | UTC-03 |
Coordinates: | 69.7588°N -50.9352°W |
Ataa was a settlement in the Disko Bay region of western Greenland. It was located on the eastern coast of Alluttoq Island, approximately 60km (40miles) to the north of Ilulissat and 30km (20miles) to the southeast of Qeqertaq.
The settlement was abandoned around 1960. It served as a backdrop for the 1997 Danish film Smilla's Sense of Snow, an adaptation of Peter Høeg's 1992 novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow.[1]