Nigertuut

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Nigertuut (those with a lot of south wind)
Nigertût
Commune Kujalleq municipality
District Nanortalics
Geographical location 60 ° 12 '47 "  N , 44 ° 14' 59"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 12 '47 "  N , 44 ° 14' 59"  W.
Nigertuut (Greenland)
Nigertuut
Residents 0
(1940)
Time zone UTC-3

Nigertuut [ niˌɣɜˈtːuːtˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Nigertût ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the Nanortalik district in the municipality of Kujalleq .

location

Nigertuut lies deep inside the fjord complex on the southern tip of Greenland. Aappilattoq is the next inhabited place seven kilometers to the south .

history

Nigertuut was not settled until the 1920s. It is known that 1930 people lived there. As early as 1939 Nigertuut 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. 58 .