Kussanga

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Kussanga
Kugssanga
Commune Kujalleq municipality
District Narsaq
Geographical location 60 ° 56 '28 "  N , 46 ° 5' 50"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 56 '28 "  N , 46 ° 5' 50"  W.
Kussanga (Greenland)
Kussanga
Residents 0
(1913)
founding 1881
Time zone UTC-3

Kussanga [ kusːaŋa ] (the old spelling Kugssanga ) is a desolate fallen Greenlandic settlement in the district Narsaq in kujalleq .

location

Kussanga is located on a cape four kilometers northwest of Narsaq and, like this one, on the sound of Narsap Ikerasaa .

history

Kussanga was settled in 1881. Already in 1907 or according to another source in 1912 the residential area was given up again.

Individual evidence

  1. Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
  2. Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 41 .