The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Tasiilaq
(täs´läk) (KEY) , formerly Ammassalik (ämä´sälk´´) (KEY) , settlement and trading post (1996 pop. 1,684), E Greenland, on the Denmark Strait just S of the Arctic Circle. It was founded in 1894. Its radio-meteorological station (est. 1925) is the oldest on Greenland. It was formerly also spelled Angmagssalik.