Uunartoq Hot Springs
- Location
- Igdlorpait, Greenland
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 7
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Uunartoq Hot Springs on Uunartoq Island in southern Greenland are chloride-rich thermal springs that have been known to Greenlandic Inuit communities and European explorers since the eighteenth century, flowing into natural rock pools at temperatures around 38°C that remain unfrozen even in winter, making them one of the most accessible and genuinely warm thermal bathing sites in the Arctic. Uunartoq (meaning 'warm' in Greenlandic) takes its name from the springs, and the island is a popular destination for kayakers and small boat expedition visitors in southern Greenland's summer season, offering the unique experience of bathing in naturally warm outdoor pools while surrounded by icebergs, fjord scenery, and the silence of the Greenlandic wilderness. Norse settlement ruins visible on the surrounding islands give Uunartoq's thermal springs an additional layer of historical depth as a bathing site known since the Viking age.