Moriusaq

Moriusaq
	Manuusaq (like the chin piece of an anorak) ; (like a sharp edge) ; Moriusaĸ
Commune	Avannaata Communia
District	Qaanaaq
Geographical location	76 ° 45 '22 " N , 69 ° 53' 11" W Coordinates: 76 ° 45 '22 " N , 69 ° 53' 11" W.
Residents	0 ; (since 2012)
founding	1963
Time zone	UTC-3

Moriusaq [ mɔˈʁiusɑq ] (also Manuusaq ; according to the old spelling Moriusaĸ or Manûssaĸ ; Inuktun Moriuhaq [ mɔˈʁiuhɑ (q) ]) is a desolate Greenlandic settlement in the district of Qaanaaq in the Avannaata communia .

location

Moriusaq is located on a prominent stretch of coast on the southwest coast of a large peninsula on Uummannap Kangerlua (Wolstenholme Fjord) in northwest Greenland. Ten kilometers further, the Iterlassuaq (Granville Fjord) cuts deep into the peninsula, separating the northern part called Steensby Land . Pituffik is 38 km southeast of Moriusaq , while the district capital Qaanaaq is 81 km north.

history

Moriusaq was founded in 1963, which makes the place the youngest in the district. In 1970 57 people lived in the area. At the end of the 1970s there were already over 100 residents. Although the area offers good opportunities for hunting birds, seals and walruses, the population has steadily declined. In 2009 only four people lived in Moriusaq. One of them began to shoot the others while drunk, whereupon one of them shot the shooter in self-defense and was temporarily placed in custody, which reduced the population to two people. The village was abandoned shortly afterwards. Most of the vacant buildings belong to the municipality. In 2018, the mining company Dundas Titanium expressed an interest in buying the buildings so that they could be demolished to mine ilmenite .

Population development

Moriusaq's population was still in three digits in the 1970s and has steadily declined since then. Moriusaq has been abandoned since 2012.

Web links

Commons : Moriusaq - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 204 ff .
^ Moriusaq in Den Store Danske
↑ Manslaughter in Moriusaq at nowiknow.com
↑ Moriusaq ligger i vejen for minedrift at knr.gl
↑ Population Moriusaq 1977-2018 at bank.stat.gl

[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. 204 ff .

[3] Moriusaq in Den Store Danske

[4] Manslaughter in Moriusaq at nowiknow.com

[5] Moriusaq ligger i vejen for minedrift at knr.gl

[6] Population Moriusaq 1977-2018 at bank.stat.gl