| Coat of arms of Sermersooq | |
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| Armiger | Sermersooq |
| Adopted | 2008 |
| Blazon | An inuksuk (cairn, or pile of stones) |
The coat of arms of Sermersooq is the municipal logo and only symbol of Sermersooq, a Municipality of Greenland. The coat of arms was adopted in 2008, a year before Sermersooq became a subdivision of Greenland. [1]
The arms show an inuksuk (rock stack or cairn) in dark blue against a golden sun on a light blue field, standing on a white line representing an icesheet over stylized waves of blue and white. The inuksuk is an historical way of marking the roads in Greenland. [2] The ice sheet covers most of Greenland, and the waves are for the water beneath it. [1]
The arms are often depicted with a white background instead of a light blue one, as on the Sermersooq municipal website Archived 2018-03-10 at the Wayback Machine .
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