Ikaarissat

Ikaarissat (ferry stations)
Ikâríssat
Commune	Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq
District	Nuuk
Geographical location	64 ° 7 ′ 27 ″  N , 51 ° 47 ′ 19 ″  W Coordinates: 64 ° 7 ′ 27 ″  N , 51 ° 47 ′ 19 ″  W
Residents	0 (1927)
founding	1913
Time zone	UTC-3

Ikaarissat [ iˈkɑːˌʁisːatˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Ikâríssat ) is a deserted, fallen Greenland fox-breeding settlement in the Nuuk district in the Sermersooq commune .

location

Ikaarissat is located on an island of the same name in a group of islands of the same name at the exit of Nuup Kangerlua . Nuuk is only six kilometers north .

history

Ikaarissat was founded in 1913 to breed foxes. The place was part of the Godthaab community. In 1918 the Danish director lived in one house and two Greenlandic employees lived with their families, a total of ten people in a second house. No other person was allowed to enter the area without permission. The foxes were able to roam freely on the islands, but it was found that some of the foxes were able to escape over floating ice floes. Therefore fences were erected, but the operation on the islands did not make sense, so Ikaarissat was given up in 1926 and fox breeding took place within Nuuk from then on.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ↑ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Godthaab district. Bopladser i Godthaab district. Bopladsen Ikâríssat . 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 2 . C. A. Reitzel Boghandel, Copenhagen 1921, p. 250 ( 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. 73 f .