Appaalissiorfik

Appaalissiorfik (where one out there at the place of young Lummen is)
Agpâligsiorfik
Commune	Avannaata Communia
District	Upernavik
Geographical location	73 ° 48 '35 "  N , 56 ° 34' 44"  W Coordinates: 73 ° 48 '35 "  N , 56 ° 34' 44"  W.
Residents	0 (1925)
founding	around 1916
Time zone	UTC-3

Appaalissiorfik [ aˈpːaːlisːiˌɔfːik ] (according to the old spelling Agpâligsiorfik ) is a desolate Greenlandic settlement in the district of Upernavik in the Avannaata Kommunia .

location

Appaalissiorfik is located on the southern tip in the west of the island of Qulleqqorsuit at the mouth of the Kangerlussuaq (Giesecke Isfjord). The place is 33 km north of Nutaarmiut and 37 km south of Nuussuaq .

history

Appaalissiorfik was founded around 1916 by survivors from Sarfaq , where everything was destroyed by a tsunami . In 1918 Appaalissiorfik had 19 residents in two houses. In 1923, Appaalissiorfik was spun off from Tasiusaq Municipality to Nuussuaq Municipality . The residential area was abandoned as early as 1924.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ↑ Hans Jensen Bryder : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgronland: Upernivik Island district. De enkelte Bopladser i Upernivik district. Bopladsen Agpalisiorfik . 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. 505 f . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 180 .