Upernaviarsuk

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Upernaviarsuk (small summer town)
Upernaviarssuk
Commune Kujalleq municipality
District Qaqortoq
Geographical location 60 ° 46 '12 "  N , 45 ° 52' 48"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 46 '12 "  N , 45 ° 52' 48"  W.
Upernaviarsuk (Greenland)
Upernaviarsuk
Residents 13
(January 1, 2020)
founding 1781
Time zone UTC-3

Upernaviarsuk [ uˌpɜnːaviˈɑsːuk ] (according to the old spelling Upernaviarssuk ) is a Greenlandic shepherd's settlement in the Qaqortoq district in the Kujalleq municipality .

location

Upernaviarsuk is located at the end of a peninsula on Qaqortukuluup Imaa or on its western part, the Qoornua Sound , which is formed by the Arpatsivik island in the fjord with the abandoned shepherd's settlement of the same name . At the end of the fjord, the abandoned shepherd's settlement of Qaqortukulooq is eleven kilometers northeast. It is only eight kilometers to the west to Qaqortoq .

history

The place where Upernaviarsuk is today was inhabited earlier. Ancient ruins can still be found here today.

Upernaviarsuk was founded as the first modern agricultural settlement in Greenland in 1781 when Anders Olsen and his wife Tuperna settled here. After a short time their farm burned down and in 1782/1783 they moved 37 km further up the fjord, where they founded the settlement Igaliku . Her son Johannes Andersen rebuilt Upernaviarsuk and lived here himself until he took over the farm in Igaliku in 1786 after the death of his father.

In 1953, under the direction of the Dane Poul Bjerge (a brother-in-law of Jonathan Motzfeldt ), an agricultural research station with a nursery and nursery , where four types of vegetables are grown. Poul Bjerge was in charge of this until his retirement in 2000. In 1955, the shepherd's station founded in 1915 was moved from Qaqortoq to Upernaviarsuk. Today Greenland's state agricultural school is located in Upernaviarsuk, where you can train to be a shepherd, field or greenhouse farmer.

Upernaviarsuk has been part of the Kujataa UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2017 .

Population development

The population of Upernaviarsuk varies between three and over 20 people who work at the research station.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
  2. ↑ a b c d Nomination to UNESCO's World Heritage List - Kujataa - a subarctic farming landscape in Greenland (nomination of the Kujataa region for the UNESCO World Heritage List) (.pdf)
  3. ↑ a b Det modern landbrugs historie at kujataa.gl
  4. ↑ Vivians barndomsjul ved Upernaviarsuk in Sermitsiaq
  5. ^ Upernaviarsuk in Den Store Danske
  6. ↑ Upernaviarsuk forsøgsstation at nunalerineq.gl
  7. ↑ Population of Upernaviarsuk 1977–2020 at bank.stat.gl