Akulliit (Kangaatsiaq)

Akulliit (the middle ones)
Akugdlît
Commune	Qeqertalik municipality
District	Kangaatsiaq
Geographical location	68 ° 23 '45 "  N , 53 ° 19' 3"  W Coordinates: 68 ° 23 '45 "  N , 53 ° 19' 3"  W.
Residents	0
Time zone	UTC-3

Akulliit [ aˌkuˈɬːiːtˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Akugdlît ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Kangaatsiaq in the municipality of Qeqertalik .

location

Akulliit is located on an island of the same name eleven kilometers northeast of Kangaatsiaq .

history

Akulliit was already inhabited in the 18th century. The area was geologically examined by Carl Ludwig Giesecke in 1812 . The place was temporarily deserted and was only repopulated at an unknown point in time. Akulliit was in the Kangaatsiaq parish .

In 1915, 13 people lived at the place where they lived. They all lived together in a peat-walled house, which was clad with wood on the inside and had a roof made of driftwood and branches. There were four hunters, one of whom was also a catechist. In 1930 15 residents were counted. During the 1930s, the residential area was given up as no residents were named in 1940.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ^ Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Egedesminde District. De grandson Bopladser. Bopladsen Akugdlît . 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 1 . C. A. Reitzel Boghandel, Copenhagen 1921, p. 78 ( 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. 125 f .