Nunatsiaat

Nunatsiaat (medium-sized areas)
	Nunatsiait
Commune	Kujalleq municipality
District	Nanortalics
Geographical location	60 ° 15 '58 " N , 45 ° 27' 58" W Coordinates: 60 ° 15 '58 " N , 45 ° 27' 58" W.
Residents	0;
Time zone	UTC-3

Nunatsiaat [ nuˌnat͡siˈaːtˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Nunatsiait ; also Nunatsiaq ) is a desolate Greenlandic settlement in the Nanortalik district in the municipality of Kujalleq .

location

Nunatsiaat was on a small island in the Salliit archipelago , on which the Udsted of the same name used to be. Both places were about halfway between Alluitsup Paa and Nanortalik in the open sea of the Labrador Sea .

history

Nunatsiaat was settled before 1845 and existed as a place to live when Salliit was founded. For 1900 there are 27 residents. Then the place was abandoned. In 1918 Nunatsiaat was no longer mentioned in the census.

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. 50 .

[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. 50 .