Saqqaq (Sisimiut)

Saqqaq (sunny side)
Sarĸaĸ
Commune	Qeqqata communia
District	Sisimiut
Geographical location	66 ° 42 '29 "  N , 53 ° 27' 39"  W Coordinates: 66 ° 42 '29 "  N , 53 ° 27' 39"  W.
Residents	0 (1953)
Time zone	UTC-3

Saqqaq [ ˈsɑqːɑq ] (according to the old spelling Sarĸaĸ ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Sisimiut in the Qeqqata communia .

location

Saqqaq is located on the small island of Nanortalik , which is located in an archipelago west of the island of Sallersua . From Saqqaq it is 27 km north to Sisimiut , 33 km northeast to Sarfannguit and 15 km north of Itilleq .

history

Saqqaq was probably settled between 1875 and 1885. From 1911 Saqqaq belonged to the Itilleq municipality.

In 1918, 41 people lived in the residential area and lived in four houses. Some of them are said to have descended from families in Paamiut . There was a catechist who graduated from the catechist school. The fourteen hunters mainly caught seals.

In 1929 a school chapel was built. In 1932 an 87 m² fish house was built, for which ten fishermen caught 44 t of cod in 1952. In 1950 Saqqaq became part of the new municipality of Sisimiut . The population was constant at around 50 for a long time before Saqqaq was abandoned in 1952.

Sons and daughters

• Anguteeraq Davidsen (1931–?), Politician (Atassut)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ↑ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Holsteinsborg District. Bopladser i Holsteinsborg district. Bopladsen Sarĸaĸ . 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. 85 ( 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. 100 .