Akunnaaq

Akunnaaq (favorite space )
	Akúnâĸ
	Akunnaaq (2014)
Commune	Qeqertalik municipality
District	Aasiaat
Geographical location	68 ° 44 '37 " N , 52 ° 19' 43" W Coordinates: 68 ° 44 '37 " N , 52 ° 19' 43" W.
Residents	66 ; (January 1, 2020)
founding	around 1850
Time zone	UTC-3

Akunnaaq [ aˌkuˈnːɑːq ] (according to the old spelling Akúnâĸ ) is a Greenlandic settlement in the district of Aasiaat in the municipality of Qeqertalik .

location

Akunnaaq is located 23 kilometers east of Aasiaat . The place is on the east coast of the island of Akunnaap Nunaa . The island of Sallersuaq, which is right in front of the town, forms a small bay where the town is located.

history

Akunnaaq (1988)

Akunnaaq was inhabited before the colonial era. Many people lived here for a long time, but almost completely fell victim to the epidemic of 1785/86. Marcus Nissen Myhlenphort wanted to repopulate the place, but did not succeed. In 1802 a Dane started fishing in Akunnaaq, but it was unsuccessful. In 1808 there was a house with two families and 17 residents in Akunnaaq. Nobody lived there in 1821 and 1831, but the place was settled again in 1850.

In 1903 the previous place of residence took over the Udsted status of Nivaaq . In 1915 Akunnaaq had 116 inhabitants. In addition to twelve residential buildings, there was an apartment for the Udsteds administrator and a shop with a provision store. Both buildings were erected in 1903 as timber-framed buildings. There was also a large wooden bacon house with a concrete floor from 1911 and a small bacon house from 1903, which was built as a peat wall house. The school chapel was a half-timbered building built in 1907 with paneling and roof shingles and an attached morgue. 22 hunters, 6 fishermen, the Udsteds administrator, a catechist and a midwife lived in Akunnaaq.

Until 1950, Akunnaaq was the capital of its own municipality in the colonial district of Egedesminde and part of the 3rd district electoral council. In 1918 the parish still included the Nivaaq and Nuuk residential areas . The place belonged to the parish of Aasiaat and was part of its eastern upper catechetical district.

By 1952 569 m² of fish houses had been built in Akunnaaq. There were now 36 fishermen in the village. In 1970 Akunnaaq already had 209 inhabitants.

economy

The inhabitants of Akunnaaq live mostly from fishing , seal and whale hunting , from work in the fish factory or as craftsmen . There are other job opportunities as a service provider, in the Pilersuisoq branch, in the Aadap Atuarfia school with around 15 students or in administrative work.

Infrastructure and supply

Akunnaaq has a natural harbor with quays, boat ramp and pontoon bridge. In the far west is the Akunnaaq heliport . There are only two larger paths that connect the heliport, the harbor, the supply facilities, the church, the garbage dump and the two cemeteries.

Nukissiorfiit supplies the place with electricity via a diesel generator and with water via pipes. The houses are heated with oil stoves, garbage is dumped and burned.

Development

Most of the buildings in Akunnaaq were built before 1960. For example the church from 1908, which, like the house of the commercial administrator from 1926, the salting-out building from 1948 and two old department stores are classified as worthy of preservation. There is also a laundry, carpentry, post office, trading post, village hall and soccer field where A-51 Akunnaaq trains.

Sons and daughters

Ane Hansen (* 1961), politician (Inuit Ataqatigiit)

Population development

The population of Akunnaaq is falling sharply. Since 1977 the place has lost two thirds of its inhabitants.

panorama

Akunnaaq (2017)

literature

Helene Brochmann: Bygden i Diskobugten . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1992, ISBN 978-87-00-11378-7 .

Web links

Commons : Akunnaaq - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
^ ^A ^b Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Egedesminde district. De grandson Bopladser. Udstedet Akúnâĸ . 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. 60 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
↑ ^a ^b Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder and bopladser i Grønland 1901–2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 119 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Akunnaaq at qaasuitsup-kp.cowi.webhouse.dk
↑ Population Akunnaaq 1977–2020 at bank.stat.gl

[1] Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq

[mog60-2] A ^b Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Egedesminde district. De grandson Bopladser. Udstedet Akúnâĸ . 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. 60 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).

[jcm-3] Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder and bopladser i Grønland 1901–2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 119 .

[plan-4] Akunnaaq at qaasuitsup-kp.cowi.webhouse.dk

[5] Population Akunnaaq 1977–2020 at bank.stat.gl