Maniitsoq (Kangaatsiaq)

Maniitsoq (the bump)
Manîtsoĸ
Commune	Qeqertalik municipality
District	Kangaatsiaq
Geographical location	67 ° 50 '16 "  N , 53 ° 49' 17"  W Coordinates: 67 ° 50 '16 "  N , 53 ° 49' 17"  W.
Residents	0
Time zone	UTC-3

Maniitsoq [ maˈniːt͡sɔq ] (according to the old spelling Manîtsoĸ ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Kangaatsiaq in the municipality of Qeqertalik .

location

Maniitsoq is located on a small island of the same name in Davis Strait . 14 km northeast is Attu . Maniitsoq was the southernmost inhabited place in North Greenland .

history

Virtually nothing is known about Maniitsoq. The place to live was probably given up shortly before 1900.

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. 115 f .