Aqqitsoq

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Aqqitsoq (the nameless)
Arĸitsoĸ
Commune Qeqertalik municipality
District Kangaatsiaq
Geographical location 68 ° 15 '4 "  N , 53 ° 5' 11"  W Coordinates: 68 ° 15 '4 "  N , 53 ° 5' 11"  W.
Aqqitsoq (Greenland)
Aqqitsoq
Residents 0
(1906)
Time zone UTC-3

Aqqitsoq [ ˈɑqːit͡sɔq ] (according to the old spelling Arĸitsoĸ ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Kangaatsiaq in the municipality of Qeqertalik .

location

Aqqitsoq is located in the northwest of an island of the same name between the Tunorsuaq fjord and Tunuarsuk Bay . Ten kilometers to the east is Niaqornaarsuk .

history

Almost nothing is known about Aqqitsoq. The residential area was settled before 1897 and given up in 1905.

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. 126 .
  3. ^ Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Egedesminde District. De grandson Bopladser. Bopladsen Kipingassoĸ . 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. 79 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).