Kangermiutsiaat

Kangermiutsiaat (medium-sized inhabitants of the headland)
	Kangermiutsiait
Commune	Kujalleq municipality
District	Qaqortoq
Geographical location	60 ° 37 '25 " N , 46 ° 5' 23" W Coordinates: 60 ° 37 '25 " N , 46 ° 5' 23" W.
Residents	0;
Time zone	UTC-3

Kangermiutsiaat [ kaˌŋɜmːiut͡siˈaːtˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Kangermiutsiait ) is a desolate Greenlandic settlement in Qaqortoq district in Kujalleq municipality .

location

Kangermiutsiaat is located on the south coast of Akia Island between Qaqortoq and Saarloq . The closest places are Eqalugaarsuit 10 km east, Saarloq 10 km south and Qaqortoq 11 km north. Before Kangermiutsiaat the strait runs Ikerasaarsunnut .

history

Kangermiutsiaat was settled before 1850.

From 1911 the place belonged to the community Julianehaab, although it was actually within the community Saarloq.

In 1919 63 people lived at the residential area, who lived in nine houses. There was a 20 m² school chapel in Kangermiutsiaat, which had an organ and a trained catechist and midwife worked. There were also twelve hunters among the residents who made their living by hunting seals, foxes and polar bears.

The place was abandoned in the 1920s.

Individual evidence

↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
↑ ^a ^b Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder and bopladser i Grønland 1901–2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 37 .
^ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab district. Bopladser i Julianehaab district. Bopladsen Kangermiutsiait . 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. 508 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).

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

[jcm-2] Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder and bopladser i Grønland 1901–2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 37 .

[3] Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab district. Bopladser i Julianehaab district. Bopladsen Kangermiutsiait . 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. 508 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).