Qeqertarsuaq (Paamiut)

Qeqertarsuaq (big island)
Storøen (the big island) K'eĸertarssuaĸ
Commune	Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq
District	Paamiut
Geographical location	62 ° 7 '22 "  N , 49 ° 46' 3"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 7 '22 "  N , 49 ° 46' 3"  W.
Residents	0 (1955)
Time zone	UTC-3

Qeqertarsuaq [ qɜˌqɜˈtːɑsːuɑq ] (according to the old spelling K'eĸertarssuaĸ , Danish Storøen ) is a desolate Greenlandic settlement in the Paamiut district in the Sermersooq commune .

location

Qeqertarsuaq is located on the south coast of an island of the same name , which is in front of a long, thin headland at the mouth of the Nerutusoq fjord . From Qeqertarsuaq it is 15 km south to Paamiut .

history

Qeqertarsuaq was already inhabited in the 18th century. At the end of the century there were 73 residents. Together with the surrounding residential areas, the area was even more populated than the associated colony Frederikshåb itself.

From 1911 Qeqertarsuaq belonged to the municipality of Avigaat .

In 1918 Qeqertarsuaq had 102 residents who lived in 18 houses that were so badly built that one wondered how people could survive in them. There was a 33 m² school chapel at the living space. It was 2.15 m high and had a two-meter-wide classroom that could be integrated into the chapel via large doors if necessary. There was an altar, a sermon desk, and a baptismal font. A trained catechist and midwife worked in the chapel. Among the residents were 15 hunters and six fishermen, most of whom made a living from sealing seals, which had however experienced a sharp decline in the decades before.

In 1938 a fish house was to be built in Qeqertarsuaq, which was discussed in Grønlands Landsråd . The matter was turned over to the colonial administrator in 1939, but it got lost. The population was around 100 for a long time in the first half of the 20th century, but in 1950 only 56 people were counted. In 1954 the last residents left the place.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ↑ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Frederikshaab District. Bopladser i Frederikshaab district. Bopladsen Storøen . 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. 352 f . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 63 .