Kangilinnguit

Kangilinnguit (the little eastern ones )
Grønnedal (green valley) Kangilínguit
Kangilinnguit (2005)
Commune	Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq
District	Ivittuut
Geographical location	61 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  N , 48 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 61 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  N , 48 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  W
Residents	0 (2020)
founding	1943
Time zone	UTC-3

Kangilinnguit [ kaŋiˈliŋːuitˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Kangilínguit ; Danish Grønnedal ) is a Greenland station in the Ivittuut district in the Sermersooq municipality .

location

Kangilinnguit is located on Ilorput (Arsukfjord), only 4.5 km northeast of the now abandoned Ivittuut . The next inhabited place Arsuk is 20 km west-southwest .

history

Kangilinnguit (1977)

Kangilinnguit was built during World War II . Greenland was an important military base for the United States during World War II , which built numerous defenses in the country. The station was completed on April 1, 1943 as Bluie West-7 . In 1947 it became the US headquarters in Greenland. On April 27, 1951, Denmark took over Kangilinnguit from the USA and on September 5, Grønlands Kommando , which had been established on August 1 of the same year, moved here. At the same time, Kangilinnguit became the capital of the municipality of Ivittuut , which is by far the smallest municipality in Greenland. In the following years, the place became increasingly civil and village structures with houses and, for example, a school were built. On August 1, 1978 the naval station was finally closed and its tasks handed over to Grønland's command. When Grønlands Kommando was merged with Færøernes Kommando to form Nuuk- based Arktisk Kommando in 2012 , Kangilinnguit was closed, which means that the former municipality no longer has an active site.

traffic

In addition to the port of the naval station, there is the Kangilinnguit heliport, built in 1971 . The road that has connected Kangilinnguit and Ivittuut since 1956 was the only one that lay between two Greenlandic inhabited places.

Population development

The population of Kangilinnguit fluctuated greatly. With the dissolution of Grønland's command in 2012, the place was closed and today has no population.

Web links

Commons : Kangilinnguit  - 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} Histories om Ivigtut og Grønnedal at arsukfjorden.gl
3. ↑ Kangilinnguit in Den Store Danske
4. ↑ Population of Kangilinnguit 1977–2020 at bank.stat.gl