Kangaamiut

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Kangaamiut (The inhabitants of
the jutting headland)
Gamle Sukkertoppen (Old Sukkertoppen )
Kangâmiut
Kangaamiut (2009)
Kangaamiut (2009)
Commune Qeqqata communia
District Maniitsoq
Geographical location 65 ° 49 '0 "  N , 53 ° 19' 0"  W Coordinates: 65 ° 49 '0 "  N , 53 ° 19' 0"  W.
Kangaamiut (Greenland)
Kangaamiut
Residents 293
(January 1, 2020)
founding 1755
Time zone UTC-3

Kangaamiut [ kaˈŋaːmiutˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Kangâmiut ) is a Greenlandic settlement in the Maniitsoq district in Qeqqata Kommunia .

location

Kangaamiut is located on the southwest coast of the island of the same name . The long and steep coast lies on the strait Sallinnguit Timaat , which is bordered by three narrow islands: Sallinngua Avannarleq , Saarlunngua and Sallinngua Kujalleq , which are grouped together as Sallinnguit . The peninsula, which Kangaamiut is in front of, lies between the Kangaamiut Kangerluarsuat in the north and the Kangerlussuatsiaq (Evighedsfjord) in the south. The closest place is Maniitsoq, 50 km south .

history

In 1755 Kangaamiut was founded as a colony by the Danish merchant Anders Olsen . At that time it was called "Sukkertoppen" ( German  Sugar Loaf ), which is derived from a correspondingly shaped mountain near the village. In the first few years the colony was shaped by the founding merchant Anders Olsen and the missionary Berthel Laersen . The latter had already carried out 280 baptisms of pagan Greenlanders by 1775.

Since the port of Kangaamiut is very unprotected, it was decided to move the colony to a cheaper location. In 1781 she was moved to Maniitsoq, where most of the residents moved there, so that Kangaamiut became "Gamle Sukkertoppen".

From 1911 Kangaamiut was a separate community in the colonial district of Sukkertoppen, to which the residential areas Narsarmiut , Timerliit and Appamiut still belonged. It was part of the 10th district electoral council of South Greenland.

In 1918 there were 258 Greenlanders and one Dane living in Kangaamiut, which was an Udsted from 1781 . At that time there were 30 Greenlandic houses in Kangaamiut. The apartment for the Udsteds administrator was built in 1908 as a half-timbered building. It measured around 65 m² and had three rooms. A provisions store with a shop dates from 1907 and was a good 110 m² in size and also a half-timbered building. The bacon house was built from stone in 1861. Another bacon and fish house was built in 1912 as a half-timbered building and measured almost 100 m². There was also a cooperage, a shed and a powder house. The school chapel was almost 67 m² in size and made of stone. Inside there was an altar, a kneeling bench, a baptismal font, a sermon chair and a classroom of almost 24 m². In addition to the Danish Udsteds administrator, a cooper, a midwife and two catechists as well as a third retired worker worked in the village. The Greenlanders made a living mainly from hunting seals, reindeer and belugas. In 1875 twice as many seals were caught as in 1917. There were 40 hunters and six fishermen.

In 1929 Kangaamiut got a new school and in 1930 a packing house was built. Later several fish houses were built, which in 1952 came together to an area of ​​385 m², which were filled by 71 fishermen. On August 3, 1948, Kangaamiut received a church. In 1970, 618 people lived in Kangaamiut, which made the place one of the largest villages in Greenland.

From 1950 to 2008, Kangaamiut was a place in Maniitsoq Municipality . Since 2009 Kangaamiut belongs to the Qeqqata Communia .

List of colonial employees

The list of colonial administrators and missionaries from the time when Kangaamiut was a colony can be found in the article Maniitsoq #List of Colonial Employees until 1921 .

economy

Kangaamiut lives from fishing. In the fish factory are mainly cod , Greenland halibut , Atlantic wolffish and lumpfish roe processed. Kangaamiut is popular with tourists for heli-skiing , recreational fishing, and hunting. The place is also known nationwide for its handicrafts.

Infrastructure and supply

The port of Kangaamiut consists of a quay for the fish factory and a quay for supply ships, as well as two jetties for smaller boats. Transport with the surrounding area takes place by boat or by helicopter via the Kangaamiut heliport . There is a longer paved road in Kangaamiut and two shorter ones. Only the cemetery between the mountains and the soccer field are not connected to the road network.

Nukissiorfiit supplies Kangaamiut with drinking water via a lake east of the town. A diesel power plant ensures the power supply. Wastewater is discharged into the sea and the ground, while the waste is dumped and incinerated. TELE Greenland provides telecommunication connections. A Pilersuisoq branch supplies the residents with goods and food.

Development

In Kangaamiut there is a post office building, a service building and an assembly building. There is also a church, a daycare center, a school and an old people's home in the village. There is a soccer field, a sports hall and a playground for leisure activities. A museum is planned.

Sons and daughters

Population development

Kangaamiut is the third largest village in Greenland. Nevertheless, the number of inhabitants has fallen by almost half since the 1990s.

Web links

Commons : Kangaamiut  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
  2. ↑ Louis Bobe : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland Sukkertoppen district. History . 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. 170 f . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Heinz Barüske: Greenland: culture and landscape of the Arctic Circle . DuMont, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7701-1544-9 .
  4. ↑ Lonely Planet Publications (ed.): Lonely Planet Iceland, Greenland & the Faroe Islands . 4th edition. 2001, ISBN 978-0-86442-686-4 (English).
  5. ↑ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Sukkertoppen District. Bopladser i Sukkertoppen district. Udstedet Kangamiut . 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. 143 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 85 ff .
  7. ↑ Kangaamiut at qeqqata.gl
  8. ↑ a b c Kangaamiut at qeqqata.odeum.com
  9. ↑ Population of Kangaamiut 1977–2020 at bank.stat.gl