Kangillerism

Kangillermiut (residents of the east)
	Kangigdlermiut
Commune	Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq
District	Nuuk
Geographical location	62 ° 46 '33 " N , 50 ° 20' 53" W Coordinates: 62 ° 46 '33 " N , 50 ° 20' 53" W.
Residents	0 ; (1951)
Time zone	UTC-3

Kangillermiut [ kaˌŋiˈɬːɜmːiutˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Kangigdlermiut ) is a desolate Greenlandic settlement in the Nuuk district in the Sermersooq commune .

location

Kangillermiut was the southernmost settlement in the district. Kangillermiut lies at the end of a long, south-facing peninsula on Allumersat (Bjørnefjord). 39 km north-northwest is Qeqertarsuatsiaat as the next inhabited settlement.

history

Kangillermiut was settled before 1886. The Herrnhut Brethren was active in the village until 1900 . From 1911 the residential area belonged to the municipality of Fiskenæsset.

In 1918 there were 27 residents who lived in four houses. Among the residents were five hunters and one untrained reader. The population lived from hunting whales, seals, foxes and reindeer.

Between 1930 and 1947, between 31 and 36 people lived in Kangillermiut. In 1942 a new school chapel was built, but in 1950 the last nine residents left the place.

Sons and daughters

Kristoffer Kristoffersen (1902–1970), artist
Nikolaj Heinrich (* 1938), politician and fisherman

Individual evidence

↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
↑ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Godthaab district. Bopladser i Godthaab district. Bopladsen Kangigdlermiut . 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. 268 f . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 84 .

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

[2] Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Godthaab district. Bopladser i Godthaab district. Bopladsen Kangigdlermiut . 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. 268 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. 84 .