Qanngui
| Qanngui | ||
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| K'ángue | ||
| Commune | Kujalleq municipality | |
| District | Narsaq | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 48 '37 " N , 46 ° 16' 0" W | |
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| Residents | 0 (1945) |
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| Time zone | UTC-3 | |
Qanngui [ ˈqaŋːui ] (according to the old spelling K'ángue ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Narsaq in the municipality of Kujalleq .
location
Qanngui is located on the south coast of an island of the same name on Narluneq (Skovfjord). Narsaq is 16 km northeast.
history
Qanngui was settled before 1895. From 1911, Qanngui was part of the Narsaq community.
In 1919, 31 people lived at the living space and lived in five houses. Among them were five hunters, a fisherman and a catechist. The population lived from the seal and fox hunt.
In 1944 the last 18 residents voluntarily left the place, which has since been abandoned.
Sons and daughters
- Laannguaq Lynge (* 1943), politician (Siumut) and librarian
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
- ↑ a b Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder and bopladser i Grønland 1901–2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 37 .
- ^ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab district. Bopladser i Julianehaab district. Bopladsen Kángue . 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. 503 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).