Ikerasak (Maniitsoq)

Ikerasak (Sound)
	Ikerasak
Commune	Qeqqata communia
District	Maniitsoq
Geographical location	65 ° 11 '24 " N , 52 ° 16' 48" W Coordinates: 65 ° 11 '24 " N , 52 ° 16' 48" W.
Residents	0 ; (1953)
founding	around 1910
Time zone	UTC-3

Ikerasak [ iˈkɜʁasak ] (according to the old spelling Ikerasak ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the Maniitsoq district in Qeqqata Kommunia .

location

Ikerasak is located at the end of the Qaarsup Nunaa peninsula on a narrow sound that gives it its name between the Kangia and Alanngua fjords . The closest settlement is Napasoq 17 km south.

history

The summer hunting ground of Qaarsoq (Ukiivik) was used around two and a half kilometers east of Ikerasak until around 1900, and the Udsteds administrator of Napasoq also lived there in the summer. When the hunted down it was decommissioned and only ruins remained.

Ikerasak was populated from Napasoq around 1910. From 1911 Ikerasak belonged to the municipality of Napasoq.

In 1918 38 people lived in Ikerasak. As in Napasoq, some of the residents had blond hair and blue eyes and therefore had to be of European origin. The inhabitants, among whom were five hunters and two fishermen, lived mainly from seal hunting and a little less from fox hunting. In addition, fish were caught and dried. The Greenlanders lived in four houses. A reader taught on site.

In 1939 a school chapel was built. A relatively large fish house was built a little later, but the yield of 10.5 t of fish per fisherman in 1952 was also extremely high, although there were only five fishermen in the village. Until 1945 the population was around 60 people. From 1950 Ikerasak belonged to the new municipality of Maniitsoq . In 1950 only 32 people lived in Ikerasak and in 1952 the place to live was given up.

Individual evidence

↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
↑ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Sukkertoppen District. Bopladser i Sukkertoppen district. Bopladsen Ikerasak . 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. 164 f . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 91 .

[1] Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq

[2] Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Sukkertoppen District. Bopladser i Sukkertoppen district. Bopladsen Ikerasak . 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. 164 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. 91 .