Qeqertarsuatsiaq (Kangaatsiaq)

Qeqertarsuatsiaq (quite large island)
	K'eĸertarssuatsiaĸ
Commune	Qeqertalik municipality
District	Kangaatsiaq
Geographical location	68 ° 24 '50 " N , 53 ° 14' 14" W Coordinates: 68 ° 24 '50 " N , 53 ° 14' 14" W.
Residents	0 ; (1979)
founding	1821
Time zone	UTC-3

Qeqertarsuatsiaq [ qɜqɜˈtːɑsːuˌat͡siɑq ] (according to the old spelling K'eĸertarssuatsiaĸ ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Kangaatsiaq in the municipality of Qeqertalik .

location

Qeqertarsuatsiaq is located on the west coast of the large island of the same name . 15 km southwest is Kangaatsiaq .

history

Qeqertarsuatsiaq was already inhabited in the 18th century, but then the population died out during the epidemic of 1785/86. In 1795 a house was built where a Dane and some Greenlanders lived and caught yarn. After three years of poor yield, the experiment was moved to Manermiut in 1798 . At the beginning of the 19th century the place was used as a summer place. In 1821 another attempt to catch yarn was started, for which 18 people lived in a house in Qeqertarsuatsiaq. It was then continuously inhabited for over 150 years, which made the residential area one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the district in modern times.

In 1915, 73 people lived in Qeqertarsuatsiaq. Among them was the district chief catechist and a midwife who was also responsible for Akulliit , Igannaq and Innalik . 17 men were active as hunters, plus there were three fishermen. The school chapel was built in 1899 as a half-timbered building with a peat wall facade and wooden roof and was enlarged in 1918. In 1928 a new school chapel was built. In 1936 it was suggested in Grønlands Landsråd that Qeqertarsuatsiaq should become Udsted . There was already a salt factory in the village. Consideration was given to establishing a depot in Qeqertarsuatsiaq, but apparently the place never became Udsted. In 1952 there were 13 fishermen in Qeqertarsuatsiaq who caught around 80 tons of cod for a fish house of 92 m². Between 1930 and 1960 the population was fairly constant at just over 100 people. Then it sank sharply and in 1970 only 18 people lived in the village. In 1978 Qeqertarsuatsiaq was given up.

Qeqertarsuatsiaq was part of the Kangaatsiaq community in the colonial district of Egedesminde until 1951 . Then the place came to the new community Kangaatsiaq .

Sons and daughters

Karl Hendriksen (1869–1928), Provincial Councilor
Alibak Steenholdt (1934–2012), administrative lawyer and civil servant
Otto Steenholdt (1936–2016), politician, teacher and author
Konrad Steenholdt (* 1942), politician and teacher

Individual evidence

↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
^ Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Egedesminde District. De grandson Bopladser. Bopladsen Keĸertarssuatsiaĸ . 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 1 . C. A. Reitzel Boghandel, Copenhagen 1921, p. 76 f . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 124 .

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

[2] Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Egedesminde District. De grandson Bopladser. Bopladsen Keĸertarssuatsiaĸ . 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 1 . C. A. Reitzel Boghandel, Copenhagen 1921, p. 76 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. 124 .