Nuuk (Nanortalik)

Nuuk (Cape)
Nûk
Commune	Kujalleq municipality
District	Nanortalics
Geographical location	60 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  N , 44 ° 9 ′ 55 ″  W Coordinates: 60 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  N , 44 ° 9 ′ 55 ″  W
Residents	0 (1951)
Time zone	UTC-3

Nuuk [ nuːk ] (according to the old spelling Nûk ) is a desolate Greenlandic settlement in the Nanortalik district in the municipality of Kujalleq .

location

Nuuk lies at the end of an extremely pointed headland deep inside the fjord complex on the southern tip of Greenland between the fjords of Kangikitsoq and Kangersuneq . Aappilattoq is the next inhabited place eleven kilometers to the southwest .

history

Nuuk was settled before 1880. The place originally belonged to the Moravian Brethren . From 1911 Nuuk belonged to the municipality of Sammisoq.

In 1919 113 inhabitants were counted who lived in 18 houses. There was a 37 m² wooden school chapel in the village where a trained catechist taught. In addition, fifteen hunters and six fishermen lived in Nuuk, who made their living by hunting seals, foxes and polar bears.

In 1920 155 people lived in the residential area. In 1925 Nuuk was reassigned to Aappilattoq. A fish house was later built in Nuuk. In 1940 the place had only 74 residents. The number then fluctuated between 65 and 78 and in 1950 the place was abandoned, with some of the residents moving to Narsaq .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ^ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab district. Bopladser i Julianehaab district. Bopladsen Nûk . In: Georg Carl Amdrup , Louis Bobé , Adolf Severin Jensen , Hans Peder Steensby (eds.): Grønland i tohundredeaaret for Hans Egedes landing (=  Meddelelser om Grønland . Volume 60-61 ). tape 2 . C. A. Reitzel Boghandel, Copenhagen 1921, p. 534 f . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 58 .