Saattut

Saattut (the thin / flat ones)
	Sãtut
Commune	Avannaata Communia
District	Uummannaq
Geographical location	70 ° 48 ′ 42 ″ N , 51 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 70 ° 48 ′ 42 ″ N , 51 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W.
Residents	226 ; (January 1, 2020)
Time zone	UTC-3

Saattut [ ˈsaːtːutˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Sãtut ) is a Greenlandic settlement in the district of Uummannaq in the Avannaata Kommunia .

location

Saattut is located on the northwest coast of an approximately 2 km² large island of the same name in the northern part of Uummannap Kangerlua . To the north are the three small islands Saattoqqissut , Affarleq and Uigorliit and to the north of them the large island of Appat . To the west are the two small islands of Oqqorliit and Assorliit . The next inhabited place is the district capital Uummannaq, 24 km to the southwest .

history

The name of Saattut means “the flat ones” and must therefore refer to a group of islands. Probably not only Saattut itself was originally named that way, but also the islands of Tuullittalik and Ukalilik to the east . The archipelago was already inhabited before the colonial era. In the 1780s the islands were temporarily uninhabited. In 1793, among other things, Saattoqqissut was a winter place with 69 inhabitants, in 1797 Jonas Hammond founded a small facility on a trial basis. In 1805 Saattut had 26 inhabitants as a winter place. During the war from 1807 to 1814, the facility had to be abandoned and Jonas Hammond also died. In 1849 48 people lived together on all islands.

In 1850, on the advice of Hinrich Johannes Rink , the place was named Udsted in order to be able to use the good fishing grounds in Itilliarsuup Kangerlua . In 1891 people moved from Qaarsut to the east of the small island and established the Narsaarsuk residential area there , which was regarded as part of Saattut.

In 1911 Saattut became a separate community in the colonial district of Uummannaq, to which the Tuullittalik residential area still belonged. The parish had a parish council with four members and was part of the 9th district electoral district of North Greenland.

In 1915 Saattut had 156 inhabitants in 27 houses. Another five houses were in Narsaarsuk. In Saattut there was also an apartment for the Udsteds administrator, which was built in 1905 as a 40 m² wooden house. The store from 1878 was a Greenlandic house. The provisions store from 1899 was a wooden building. The cooperage was a peat wall house. There were also two bacon houses, one of which was a peat wall house built in 1877 and the other a wooden house with felt roofing from 1905. The church from 1881 was also built in the Greenland style. In 1915 a small bell house was added to the east gable. In the church there was a sermon chair, a harmonium, an altar and a baptismal font, which had been moved here from Ikerasak in 1890 . The school was in a Greenlander house from 1906 and measured 11 m². Thirty hunters, four fishermen, the Udsteds administrator, a catechist and a midwife worked in Saattut.

Around 1920 a new shop with warehouse was built. In 1927 a large school chapel was built. In 1930 Saattut already had 193 inhabitants. In 1932 a coal house and a department store - probably a fish store - were built. 1940 and 1950 the place had 185 inhabitants each. Saattut was the northernmost place where fishing was practiced, but in 1952 this had been abandoned. Over 239 inhabitants in 1960, the population rose to 273 people by 1970.

From 1950 Saattut was part of the municipality of Uummannaq . During the administrative reform in 2009, the place was incorporated into the Qaasuitsup Kommunia . Saattut has been part of Avannaata Kommunia since 2018 . .

economy

Like most Greenlandic villages, Saattut lives from fishing. The fish factory operated by Royal Greenland mainly processes halibut . Other jobs are offered by trade, hunting, administration, tourism and schools.

Infrastructure and supply

The port of Saattut is in the north of the village and includes a quay and a pontoon jetty. In the south there is also the Saattut heliport , which connects the town to the surrounding area by air. With the surrounding area the transport takes place with dog sleds and snowmobiles .

Nukissiorfiit supplies the place with electricity through a power station and with drinking water through a seawater desalination plant. The heat is supplied by private oil stoves. Garbage is dumped and burned and sewage is discharged into the sea. TELE Greenland guarantees the telecommunication supply.

Development

Saattut's school, Muusap Atuarfia , teaches a good 30 pupils from first to ninth grade and also houses a small library. In Saattut there is also a Pilersuisoq branch, an infirmary, a village office, a community workshop, several kiosks, a service building, an assembly building, a playground, a kindergarten, but no old people's home.

Several buildings, mainly from the second half of the 19th century, are worthy of preservation, including the school from 1899 and the church from 1927, which was used as a school chapel until 1980.

Sons and daughters

Peter Street (1902–?), Catechist and councilor
Peter Jensen (1914–1993), catechist and councilor

Population development

Saattut is the second largest village in the district. The population has fluctuated between 210 and 300 people over the past 40 years.

Web links

Commons : Saattut - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
^ ^A ^b ^c Alfred Bertelsen , Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Ũmánaĸ district. De grandson Bopladser. Sãtut . 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. 413 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
^ ^A ^b ^c Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 172 f .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Saattut at qaasuitsup-kp.cowi.webhouse.dk
↑ Population Saattut 1977-2020 at bank.stat.gl

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

[mog60-2] A ^b ^c Alfred Bertelsen , Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Ũmánaĸ district. De grandson Bopladser. Sãtut . 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. 413 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).

[jcm-3] A ^b ^c Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 172 f .

[plan-4] Saattut at qaasuitsup-kp.cowi.webhouse.dk

[5] Population Saattut 1977-2020 at bank.stat.gl