Illorsuit

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Illorsuit (big houses)
Igdlorssuit
Commune Avannaata Communia
District Uummannaq
Geographical location 71 ° 14 '34 "  N , 53 ° 34' 29"  W Coordinates: 71 ° 14 '34 "  N , 53 ° 34' 29"  W
Illorsuit (Greenland)
Illorsuit
Residents 0
(2019)
founding 1859
Time zone UTC-3

Illorsuit [ ˌiˈɬːɔsːuitˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Idglorssuit ) is a currently abandoned Greenlandic settlement in the district of Uummannaq in the Avannaata Kommunia .

location

Illorsuit is located on the east coast of the island of the same name at the foot of a high mountain range that covers the entire island and surrounds the town. The closest place is Nuugaatsiaq, 35 km to the north, which is also currently abandoned on the island of Qeqertarsuaq , which should not be confused with Disko Island with its district capital of the same name . Due to its enclosed location, the place is completely in the shade from October to March.

history

A trading and whaling facility called Ubekendt Ejland or St. Peders Haab was built on the island at the beginning of the 19th century . This facility was abandoned as early as 1804. Around 1840 Greenlanders used the island as winter living space, especially in the north.

Because the distance to the next Udsted in Ukkusissat was great, an Udsted in Illorsuit was founded in 1859 . From 1881 to 1886 meteorological measurements were made in Illorsuit. In 1905 101 people lived in Illorsuit.

In 1911 Illorsuit became a separate community in the colonial district of Uummannaq, which still included the residential areas Upernavik Næs , Karrat and Nuliarfik . The municipality belonged to the 10th district electoral council of North Greenland and had a municipal council with five members.

In 1915, 117 people lived in Illorsuit, including a Dane. There were sixteen Greenlandic houses in the village, a 57 m² apartment for the Udsteds administrator from 1913, a timber-framed building built in 1859 that served as a store and shop, a cooperage based on Greenlandic construction with wooden floors, a bacon house from 1875, which also had a 90 m² large Greenlander house, and a newer bacon house from 1906, which was made of wood. The school chapel was of an older date and also built in a Greenland style and was 48 m² in size. 24 hunters, the Udsteds administrator, a cooper, a catechist and a midwife lived in the village.

A packing house was built in 1919, a new school chapel in 1923 and a coal house and workshop in 1935. In 1925 Nuugaatsiaq, which had only been settled a few years earlier, became the Udsted, thereby dividing the Illorsuit community. In 1930 Illorsuit had 168 inhabitants. In 1947 there was a famine and the population had to kill and eat 93 of their dogs.

In 1950 Illorsuit became part of the new parish of Uummannaq . During the administrative reform in 2009, the place became part of the Qaasuitsup Kommunia , which was divided into the Avannaata Kommunia in the north in 2018 .

In June 2017, Illorsuit and Nuugaatsiaq were hit by a tsunami . Since it was established that the place was in the danger zone for another tsunami, it was evacuated. In September 2019 it was announced that Illorsuit cannot be released again and that this will not change until the end of further investigations in 2021.

economy

Like most other places in Greenland, Illorsuit lives off seal, whale and fishing. Halibut and seal skin are processed in a factory . There are other work opportunities at Pilersuisoq , in the Atuarfik Aaralik school , which teaches a good dozen pupils and also includes a library and provides leisure opportunities, in administrative matters or in the service sector, for example in day care.

Infrastructure and supply

A small quay gives Illorsuit access to the water. Other means of transport are dog sleds and snowmobiles. There is a road and many small paths. The Heliport Illorsuit in the south connects the place with other settlements.

Nukissiorfiit is responsible for supplying the place . The drinking water is obtained by melting snow in winter and by a small stream in summer. Garbage is burned in the village and sewage is discharged into the sea. TELE Greenland provides the place with a telecommunication connection.

Development

Illorsuit is divided into a small northern and a southern part. The place is badly affected by avalanches and erosion . In addition to the school and shop, there are also offices, a village hall, an infirmary and a church. Many buildings in Illorsuit are protected. In the south there is the cemetery and in the north there is a football field built on sandy ground.

Sons and daughters

Population development

Illorsuit's population declined during the 1980s. In the following decade, it rose again to the value of the late 1970s and has fallen sharply since then, which halved the population by 2017. Since the evacuation as a result of the tsunami, Illorsuit has been abandoned abruptly.

Web links

Commons : Illorsuit  - 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 d Illorsuit at qaasuitsup-kp.cowi.webhouse.dk
  3. ^ A b c Alfred Bertelsen , Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Ũmánaĸ district. De grandson Bopladser. Igdlorssuit . 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. 423 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ a b Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder and bopladser i Grønland 1901–2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 165 f .
  5. ^ Illorsuit in Den Store Danske
  6. ↑ The 95-meter tsunami at Spiegel Online
  7. ↑ Illorsuit forbliver hatches in Sermitsiaq
  8. ↑ Population Illorsuit 1977–2020 at bank.stat.gl