Imermiut

Imermiut (inhabitant of fresh water)
Imermiut
Commune	Qeqertalik municipality
District	Kangaatsiaq
Geographical location	67 ° 56 '11 "  N , 53 ° 15' 22"  W Coordinates: 67 ° 56 '11 "  N , 53 ° 15' 22"  W
Residents	0
Time zone	UTC-3

Imermiut [ iˈmɜmːiutˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Imermiut ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Kangaatsiaq in the municipality of Qeqertalik .

location

Imermiut is located east of the Attup Imaa strait . The name refers to the large lake Imermiut Tasersuat , where the place is located. Imermiut is located 15 km east of Attu .

history

Little is known about Imermiut. The place may have been inhabited in the 18th century without any records being available. At the end of the 1890s the place was probably permanently inhabited, but later only a few families from Attu came here, who only lived in Imermiut for the first half of the year. In 1915 there was a house in Imermiut, which was built as a peat wall house with a roof made of driftwood and branches. It is unknown when Imermiut was no longer used.

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. Udflytterpladsen Imermiut . 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. 90 ( 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. 131 f .