Qeqertat (Uummannaq)

Qeqertat (islands)
K'eĸertat
Commune	Avannaata Communia
District	Uummannaq
Geographical location	70 ° 59 '30 "  N , 52 ° 14' 33"  W Coordinates: 70 ° 59 '30 "  N , 52 ° 14' 33"  W.
Residents	0 (1946)
founding	1899
Time zone	UTC-3

Qeqertat [ qɜˈqɜtːatˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling K'eĸertat ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Uummannaq in the Avannaata Kommunia .

location

Qeqertat is located in the south of the island of Uigukumiat in a small group of islands north of the island of Salleq off the coast of Appat . Ukkusissat is 14 km to the northeast .

history

Qeqertat has been uninhabited for a long time, although remains of earlier settlements can be found, but Greenlanders often came here to collect the eggs of eider ducks . In 1899 a man from Sermiarsuit moved to Qeqertat. In 1905, 20 people lived at the residential area. In 1911 Qeqertat became part of the Ukkusissat parish. In 1914 a few houses were built further northwest on the island in Serfat, where previously there had only been a hunting lodge. In 1915 there were 52 residents who lived in eight houses. Among them were 15 hunters, one of whom also worked as a reader. In 1930, 71 people lived in the village before the population dropped again. In 1945 the last 39 people left the residential area.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ^ Alfred Bertelsen , Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Ũmánaĸ district. De grandson Bopladser. Keĸertat . 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. 421 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. 168 .