Qaqortukulooq

Qaqortukulooq (the great white one)
	Hvalsey (Whale Island) ; K'aĸortukulôĸ
Commune	Kujalleq municipality
District	Qaqortoq
Geographical location	60 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ N , 45 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 60 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ N , 45 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W.
Residents	0 ; (2015)
Time zone	UTC-3
particularities	medieval church ruins

Qaqortukulooq [ qɑˌqɔtːukuˈlɔːq ] (according to the old spelling K'aĸortukulôĸ ) is a deserted Greenlandic shepherd settlement in the district of Qaqortoq in the municipality of Kujalleq .

location

Qaqortukulooq is located on a 140 m narrow strait that connects the end of Qaqortukuluup Imaa with Qaqortukuluup Tasiusaa . The Shepherd's settlement of Upernaviarsuk is 11 km to the southwest . The next larger towns are the municipal capital Qaqortoq, 19 km southwest, and Narsaq, 18 km northwest .

history

The ruined church of Hvalsey (2014)

A few hundred meters west of today's Qaqortukulooq are the ruins of the Grænlendingar settlement Hvalsey , whose church is the best preserved medieval church ruin in the country. The Landnámabók According founded Þorkell farserkr that a cousin (or nephew) mother of Erik the Red was Hvalsey and thus was the progenitor of living there Grænlendingar. Hans Egede discovered the ruins as early as 1723, just two years after his arrival in Greenland. They were measured more precisely in the following decades and in the 1930s the Danish archaeologist Aage Roussell led major excavations. In 1999, further investigations revealed that the church, built around 1300, was already a successor to an earlier church.

Today's Qaqortukulooq is a now abandoned sheep farm that had six residents in 2004.

Web links

Commons : Hvalsey - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
↑ Landnámabók , Part 2, Chapter 14
↑ ^a ^b Nomination to UNESCO's World Heritage List - Kujataa - a subarctic farming landscape in Greenland (nomination of the Kujataa region for the UNESCO World Heritage List) (.pdf; p. 90ff)
↑ Qaqortukulooq kirkeruin in Den Store Danske
↑ Per Ivar Haug: Gazetteer of Greenland (= Ingar Lomheim [Hrsg.]: Til opplysning . No. 15 ). Universitetsbiblioteket i Trondheim, 2005, ISBN 82-7113-114-1 , ISSN 1502-0800 , p. 28 (English, bibsys.no [PDF; 1.4 MB ; accessed on December 30, 2018]).

[1] Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq

[2] Landnámabók , Part 2, Chapter 14

[unesco-3] Nomination to UNESCO's World Heritage List - Kujataa - a subarctic farming landscape in Greenland (nomination of the Kujataa region for the UNESCO World Heritage List) (.pdf; p. 90ff)

[4] Qaqortukulooq kirkeruin in Den Store Danske

[5] Per Ivar Haug: Gazetteer of Greenland (= Ingar Lomheim [Hrsg.]: Til opplysning . No. 15 ). Universitetsbiblioteket i Trondheim, 2005, ISBN 82-7113-114-1 , ISSN 1502-0800 , p. 28 (English, bibsys.no [PDF; 1.4 MB ; accessed on December 30, 2018]).