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In the village you can find hotel, restaurant, post office, bakery, book shop, museum and the helicopter station. In Tasiilaq there are also Greenlandic filatelia and a hospital.
The local people are still fisherman and hunters by trade but lots of people also work in administration and service.
The city was founded by Danish explorers in 1894 and called it Ammassalik, the place with lots of ammassats small fish, the name of the area used by the locals farther south. The locals living in the area continued to call it Tasiilaq, the one that looks like a lake. As a consequence, the city was renamed Tasiilaq a few years ago. The municipality is still called Ammassalip Kummunia.
