Kanajormiut

Kanajormiut (resident of the sea scorpion (place))
Kanajormiut
Commune	Kujalleq municipality
District	Nanortalics
Geographical location	60 ° 24 '7 "  N , 45 ° 13' 36"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 24 '7 "  N , 45 ° 13' 36"  W.
Residents	0 (1922)
Time zone	UTC-3

Kanajormiut [ kanaˈjɔmːiutˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Kanajormiut ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the Nanortalik district in the municipality of Kujalleq .

location

Kanajormiut is located on the small island of the same name , which forms an extension of the peninsula between the Uunartup Kangerlua and the Sermilik . The nearest town is Alluitsup Paa , which is 20 km west-northwest.

history

Kanajormiut was settled before 1845. The population at that time belonged to the Moravian Brethren . From 1911 the residential area belonged to the municipality of Sydprøven.

In 1919 15 people lived in the village and lived in four houses. Among them were four hunters, a fisherman and a reader. The residents lived mainly from sealing seals.

Only two years later, the last residents left the place.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ^ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab district. Bopladser i Julianehaab district. Bopladsen Kanajormiut . 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. 519 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. 49 .