Ataa

Ataa (the one below)
Atâ
Ataa (2007)
Commune	Avannaata Communia
District	Ilulissat
Geographical location	69 ° 45 '32 "  N , 50 ° 56' 11"  W Coordinates: 69 ° 45 '32 "  N , 50 ° 56' 11"  W.
Residents	0 (1961)
founding	1852
Time zone	UTC-3

Ataa [ aˈtaː ] (according to the old spelling Atâ ) is a desolate, fallen Greenlandic settlement in the Ilulissat district in the Avannaata Kommunia .

location

Ataa is located in the east of the island of Alluttoq (Arveprinsens Ejland). Directly to the north is the 96 m deep lake Tasersuaq . The Sound Ikerasak (Ataa Sound) runs in front of the place . Ataa is 30 km south of Qeqertaq and 46 km north of Oqaatsut .

history

Ataa was still uninhabited at the beginning of the colonial era. Around 1830 an attempt to catch yarn in Illuluarsuit was given up and the population emigrated. To repopulate the area, an Udsted was founded in Ataa in 1852 . A bacon house and a Greenlandic dwelling house were built for the Udsteds administrator, but for the first few years only the administrator and his family, around ten people together, lived on site. But people soon moved in and in 1857 a new apartment with a shop was built. In the west of Ataa there are mountains so high that from the afternoon onwards the sun no longer penetrated the place. Ataa is the place of origin of the Greenlandic Gundel family.

In 1900, 91 people lived in Ataa and Arsivik . In 1905, 73 people lived in Ataa. In 1915 Ataa had 59 inhabitants. There were nine hunters, some of whom fished on the side, an Udsteds administrator, a midwife and a catechist. The people lived in six apartment buildings. There was also an apartment for the Udsteds administrator. It was built in 1916 as a half-timbered building with double paneling and had two rooms and a kitchen. The old apartment from 1857 was a Greenlander house that was now used as a warehouse. The store with provisions store dates from 1907 and was made of wood. The bacon house was still from 1852 and was a peat wall house with a wooden roof. The 16 m² school chapel was a half-timbered building with a peat wall facade and high roof from 1915. In 1938 a new school chapel was built and, at an unknown point in time, a packing house. Between 1930 and 1947 the population was between 43 and 49 people. In 1950 it rose to 61. In 1960 there were still 61 people living in the village, but all of them left Ataa that same year.

Ataa was a separate municipality until 1950, to which the Arsivik residential area still belonged. It belonged to the colonial district of Jakobshavn and was part of the 6th regional electoral district of North Greenland. Ataa was part of the parish of Ilulissat. In 1950 Ataa was incorporated into the municipality of Ilulissat .

Sons and daughters

• Johan Gundel (1875–1941), National Councilor

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ^ ^{A b c} Johan Madsen Krogh , Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Jakobshavn district. De enkelte Bopladser i Jakobshavn district. Udstedet Atâ . 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. 205 ff . ( 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. 147 f .