Akuliaruseq (Nanortalik)

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Akuliaruseq (mountain between two fjords)
Akuliaruseĸ
Commune Kujalleq municipality
District Nanortalics
Geographical location 60 ° 28 '20 "  N , 45 ° 30' 8"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 28 '20 "  N , 45 ° 30' 8"  W.
Akuliaruseq (Greenland)
Akuliaruseq
Residents 0
(2010)
Time zone UTC-3

Akuliaruseq [ akuliˈaʁusɜq ] (according to the old spelling Akuliaruseĸ ) is a deserted Greenlandic shepherd settlement in the Nanortalik district in the municipality of Kujalleq .

location

Akuliaruseq is located on the southern tip of a peninsula between the Alluitsup Kangerlua and the Imatsiaq . Ammassivik is 15 km north on the same peninsula . Alluitsup Paa is on the other side of the fjord just under four kilometers to the west .

history

Akuliaruseq was founded before 1850. It used to be a large living space. The residents belonged to the Moravian Brethren . From 1911 Akuliaruseq was part of the municipality of Sydprøven.

In 1919 the place had 117 inhabitants who lived in 16 houses. There was also a school chapel built in 1914/18 which is now protected and measured 35 m² and had a small church tower. The population consisted of 19 hunters, a fisherman and a seminarium-trained catechist. The population lived mainly from sealing seals.

In 1930 there were 153 residents in Akuliaruseq. In 1942 Pavia Høegh built a new school chapel. The population sank to 40 in 1950. In 1950 the place became part of the municipality Nanortalik . Akuliaruseq was abandoned in 1961, but the place still functioned as a shepherd's settlement that lasted until 2009.

Population development

In 1977 Akuliaruseq still had 14 residents. The number sank slowly in the next 30 years until the last resident left the place in 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
  2. ^ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab district. Bopladser i Julianehaab district. Bopladsen Akuliaruseĸ . In: Georg Carl Amdrup , Louis Bobé , Adolf Severin Jensen , Hans Peder Steensby (eds.): Grønland i tohundredeaaret for Hans Egedes landing (=  Meddelelser om Grønland . Volume 60-61 ). tape 2 . C. A. Reitzel Boghandel, Copenhagen 1921, p. 518 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 47 .
  4. ↑ Lokaliteter i Grønland at stat.gl (.pdf)