Qeqertarsuaaraq

Qeqertarsuaaraq (small big island)
	K'eĸertarssuâraĸ
Commune	Kujalleq municipality
District	Qaqortoq
Geographical location	60 ° 49 '19 " N , 47 ° 5' 43" W Coordinates: 60 ° 49 '19 " N , 47 ° 5' 43" W.
Residents	0;
founding	1786
Time zone	UTC-3

Qeqertarsuaaraq [ qɜqɜˌtːɑsːuɑːʁɑq ] (the old spelling K'eĸertarssuâraĸ ) is a desolate fallen Greenlandic settlement in the district Qaqortoq in kujalleq .

location

Qeqertarsuaaraq is located in the southeast of the island of Qaarusuarsuk . The eponymous island of Qeqertarsuaaraq and Ulamertoq lie in front of the village . Qassimiut is the next inhabited place, 5.6 km to the southwest .

history

Qeqertarsuaaraq was first settled in 1786. The place was then temporarily abandoned. It was inhabited again by 1893 at the latest.

From 1911 Qeqertarsuaaraq belonged to the municipality of Qassimiut.

In 1919, 45 people lived in Qeqertarsuaaraq, who lived in nine houses. Among them were ten hunters who made their living by hunting seals and foxes, but they also grew beets, potatoes and rhubarb and raised sheep. There was a catechist and a midwife in town.

In 1937 a school chapel was built. Before that, the lessons took place in the catechist's home. Between 1930 and 1960, around 50 people lived in Qeqertarsuaaraq. From 1950 Qeqertarsuaaraq belonged to the municipality of Qaqortoq . In 1962 only eleven people lived in Qeqertarsuaaraq and the place was then only used as a shepherd's settlement for a few years before it was completely abandoned in 1976 at the latest.

Sons and daughters

Agnethe Nielsen (1925–2011), politician (Atassut) and women's rights activist

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. 36 f .
^ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab district. Bopladser i Julianehaab district. Bopladsen Keĸertarsuâraĸ . 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. 496 f . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).

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

[jcm-2] Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder and bopladser i Grønland 1901–2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 36 f .

[3] Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab district. Bopladser i Julianehaab district. Bopladsen Keĸertarsuâraĸ . 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. 496 f . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).