Igannaq

Igannaq
Igánaĸ
Commune	Qeqertalik municipality
District	Kangaatsiaq
Geographical location	68 ° 25 '53 "  N , 53 ° 14' 38"  W Coordinates: 68 ° 25 '53 "  N , 53 ° 14' 38"  W.
Residents	0 (1920)
founding	1902
Time zone	UTC-3

Igannaq [ iˈɣanːɑq ] (after the old spelling Igánaĸ ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Kangaatsiaq in the municipality of Qeqertalik .

location

Igannaq is located at the end of a long narrow peninsula in the northwest of the island of Qeqertarsuatsiaq, only about two kilometers north of the abandoned settlement of Qeqertarsuatsiaq . The next inhabited place is Kangaatsiaq 16 km southwest.

history

Igannaq was first mentioned as inhabited in 1829 when fourteen people lived in one house. In 1831 the place was deserted again. It was not until 1902 that Igannaq was repopulated. The place was part of the Kangaatsiaq community. In 1915, ten residents were counted who lived in a house that was built as a peat wall house with internal wooden paneling and a roof made of driftwood and branches. There were four hunters, one of whom was a catechist on the side. In 1919 Igannaq was given up again.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ^ Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Egedesminde District. De grandson Bopladser. Bopladsen Igánaĸ . 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. 77 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 125 .