Eqqorleq

Eqqorleq
Erĸordleĸ
Commune	Avannaata Communia
District	Upernavik
Geographical location	73 ° 13 '37 "  N , 56 ° 19' 25"  W Coordinates: 73 ° 13 '37 "  N , 56 ° 19' 25"  W.
Residents	0 (1950)
Time zone	UTC-3

Eqqorleq [ ɜqːɔɬːɜq ] (according to the old spelling Erĸordleĸ ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Upernavik in the Avannaata Kommunia .

location

Eqqorleq is located on a small island of the same name directly on Baffin Bay . The closest place is Innaarsuit ten kilometers further east.

history

Eqqorleq was settled after 1887. From 1911 the residential area belonged to the Tasiusaq community . In 1918, 47 people lived there in eight houses. Four of the houses were extremely primitive and one was only 3.75 m² with a ceiling height of 150 cm. The residents were considered capable but extremely uncultivated and many did not even know their own last name. One of the hunters taught the local children. In 1930 Eqqorleq only had 24 residents. In 1940 the population had risen again to 38 people, but in 1947 there were only 21 and two years later the place was given up.

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 Erĸordleĸ . 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. 502 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. 183 .