Qarmat
| Qarmat (walls) | ||
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| K'armat | ||
| Commune | Kujalleq municipality | |
| District | Narsaq | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 43 '54 " N , 46 ° 55' 3" W | |
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| Residents | 0 (1954) |
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| Time zone | UTC-3 | |
Qarmat [ ˈqɑmːatˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling K'armat ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Narsaq in the municipality of Kujalleq .
location
Qarmat is located on the south coast of the island of the same name at the mouth of the Ikersuaq (Bredefjord). 14 km to the west-northwest is Qassimiut as the closest place.
history
Qarmat was already inhabited before 1870.
From 1911 to 1950 the place belonged to the municipality of Qassimiut, while it was the only one of the municipality to be added to the new municipality of Narsaq .
In 1919 there were 56 people living in nine houses at the living space. There were eleven hunters and one catechist among the residents. They made a living from hunting seals and foxes.
In the 1930s a school chapel was built in Qarmat. At that time, the population was around 40. In 1946 the construction of a fish house was proposed in Qarmat, but because of the smaller population it was built in Qassimiut instead. From 1947 the number of residents fell and in 1953 the last 13 residents left the residential area.
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 Karmat . 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. 498 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).