Saarloq (Nuuk)

Saarloq (bald spot)
Sârdloĸ
Commune	Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq
District	Nuuk
Geographical location	64 ° 22 '13 "  N , 51 ° 39' 50"  W Coordinates: 64 ° 22 '13 "  N , 51 ° 39' 50"  W.
Residents	0 (1952)
Time zone	UTC-3

Saarloq [ ˈsɑːɬːɔq ] (according to the old spelling Sârdloĸ ) is a desolate Greenlandic settlement in the Nuuk district in the Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq .

location

Saarloq is located on the northwest bank of the Nuup Kangerlua 22 km north of Nuuk in the Akia (Nordlandet) area.

history

Hans Egedes is said to have lived there in Saarloq even at the time . In 1875 the living space was also mentioned. According to Det Grønlandske Atlas , Saarloq was uninhabited in 1901 and was only repopulated afterwards. From 1911 Saarloq belonged to the Godthaab community.

In 1918 there were 34 residents who lived in four houses. The residents, nine of whom were hunters, made a living mainly from hunting whales and reindeer and, to a lesser extent, seals and foxes. In 1875 twice as many seals had been caught. One of the hunters worked as an untrained catechist.

A school chapel and fish house were probably built in Saarloq at the end of the 1930s. Between 1930 and 1950, between 44 and 64 people lived in Saarloq. In 1950 Saarloq became part of the new municipality of Nuuk , but only a year later the residential area was given up.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ↑ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Godthaab district. Bopladser i Godthaab district. Bopladsen Sârdloĸ . 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. 250 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. 74 .