Kangilinnguit

Kangilinnguit Grønnedal
Fjord icefloes, view from Kangilinnguit
Kangilinnguit Location within Greenland
Coordinates: 61°14′00″N 48°05′55″W / 61.23333°N 48.09861°W / 61.23333; -48.09861Coordinates: 61°14′00″N 48°05′55″W / 61.23333°N 48.09861°W / 61.23333; -48.09861
State	Kingdom of Denmark
Constituent country	Greenland
Municipality	Sermersooq
Population (2010)
• Total	160
Time zone	UTC-03
Postal Code	3905 Nuussuaq

Kangilinnguit or Kangilínguit, formerly Grønnedal, is a settlement and a naval base in Greenland's Sermersooq municipality, located at the mouth of Arsuk Fjord in southwestern Greenland. The settlement had 160 inhabitants in 2010, most of whom are Danish Navy personnel, attached to Island Command Greenland headquarters. A road – roughly 5 kilometres (3 miles) long – between Kangilinnguit and Ivittuut make them the only towns in Greenland connected by roads. It was the only populous settlement within the former Ivittuut Municipality.

For the former U.S. Naval Operating Facility there, see Bluie West Seven.

Kangilinnguit was founded as "Green Valley" by the United States Navy during the Second World War to protect the highly strategic cryolite quarry in the former settlement of Ivittuut. The U.S. Navy turned the base over to the Danish Navy in August 1951. During the early years of the Cold War, the base was used by anti-submarine warfare ships of NATO, which tracked Soviet Navy submarines in the North Atlantic.

Since at least the mid-1990s, the Danish Navy has proposed saving money on the headquarters staff of Island Command Greenland out of isolated Grønnedal by relocating most of the 65 members either to the Greenlandic capital at Nuuk or bringing them back to Aarhus in Jutland. However, the Greenlandic government has successfully lobbied to keep the command intact in order to boost the local economy.