Neqi

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Neqi (meat)
Neĸe
Commune Avannaata Communia
District Qaanaaq
Geographical location 77 ° 51 '30 "  N , 71 ° 32' 57"  W Coordinates: 77 ° 51 '30 "  N , 71 ° 32' 57"  W.
Neqi (Greenland)
Neqi
Residents 0
Time zone UTC-3

Neqi [ nɜˈqi ] (according to the old spelling Neĸe ; Inuktun Neqi [ nɜˈqi ]) is a deserted, fallen Greenland settlement in the district of Qaanaaq in the Avannaata Kommunia .

location

Neqi is at the tip of a peninsula between the Arfalluarfiup Sermia and Neqip Sermia glaciers . From Neqi it is 23 km to the southeast to Siorapaluk .

history

Neqi is located in the Avannarliit residential group . This was the northernmost of the four groups between whose living quarters the Inughuit used to roam. Neqi had fifteen residents in 1951. In 1952 and 1953 there were fourteen each. In 1960 seven people were still living at the place where they lived. During the 1960s, Neqi was abandoned and no more residents were counted there in 1970.

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. 204 ff .