Akuliaruseq (at Ikerasak)

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Akuliaruseq (mountain between two fjords)
Akuliaruseĸ
Commune Avannaata Communia
District Uummannaq
Geographical location 70 ° 27 '47 "  N , 51 ° 5' 0"  W Coordinates: 70 ° 27 '47 "  N , 51 ° 5' 0"  W.
Akuliaruseq (Greenland)
Akuliaruseq
Residents 0
Time zone UTC-3

Akuliaruseq [ akuliˈaʁusɜq ] (according to the old spelling Akuliaruseĸ ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Uummannaq in the Avannaata Kommunia .

location

Akuliaruseq was on the north side of a peninsula on the Ilua Bay . Ikerasak is the next inhabited place nine kilometers to the northwest .

history

Very little is known about Akuliaruseq. In 1901 the place was still inhabited, but no longer in 1918. The place was then only used to show kayaks from Ikerasak by means of campfires the way to Qarajaq .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
  2. ↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 175 .