Qarajat

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Qarajat (bays surrounded by mountains)
K'arajat
Commune Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq
District Nuuk
Geographical location 63 ° 57 '29 "  N , 51 ° 30' 13"  W Coordinates: 63 ° 57 '29 "  N , 51 ° 30' 13"  W
Qarajat (Greenland)
Qarajat
Residents 0
(1906)
founding 1775
Time zone UTC-3

Qarajat [ qɑʁajatˢʰ ] (the old spelling K'arajat ) is a desolate fallen Greenlandic settlement in the district Nuuk in Sermersooq .

location

Qarajat is located on the south coast of a peninsula belonging to the mainland. Not too far is Narsaq, 7 km northwest . The nearest inhabited place is Nuuk , which is 27 km north-northwest.

history

Qarajat was founded in 1775 by the Moravian Brethren . In 1779 some of the residents moved to the mission station in Narsaq. Nothing is known about Qarajat, except that the last residents left the place in 1905.

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. 80 .