The town of Tasiilaq, also known by its former name of Ammassalik, lies just south of the Arctic 
  Circle. It is situated in a fjord which is protected from the open sea by a narrow mouth, and the 
  first sight that welcomes the arriving guests looking out of the helicopter window is of the many 
  bright-coloured houses built along the mountainsides. The population of Tasiilaq reached such
  a high level during the 1920s that there was not enough employment for everybody. In other 
  words, there were too many people and too few seals.
 

   It was therefore decided to build a new  town at the mouth of the world' s largest fjord 
   900 km further north. It was originally named Scorebysund  and is now called Ittoqqortoormiit. 
   The town has only around 550 inhabitants, and can only be reached by helicopter from the 
   small airfield at Nerlerit/Konstabel Pynt. The main occupation in both towns and the
 

   outlying villages is seal hunting. The kind of industrial fisheries familiar on the  west coast have 
  not on the whole been established here.  Old traditions associated with the division of the catch 
  are still observed in East Greenland. The skin of the polar bear, for example, is given to the  
  person who first sighted the animal rather than the hunter who actually killed it.

                                   -   article courtesy Greenland Tourism, pictures copyright C. Ascher -