Sarfaa

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Sarfaa (whose stream)
Sarfâ
Commune Kujalleq municipality
District Nanortalics
Geographical location 60 ° 34 '28 "  N , 45 ° 23' 3"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 34 '28 "  N , 45 ° 23' 3"  W.
Sarfaa (Greenland)
Sarfaa
Residents 0
(1923)
founding 1913
Time zone UTC-3

Sarfaa [ sɑˈfːaː ] (according to the old spelling Sarfâ ) is a desolate Greenlandic settlement in the Nanortalik district in the municipality of Kujalleq .

location

Sarfaa is located at the mouth of Tasiusaarsuk Bay in Alluitsup Kangerlua . The next inhabited place Ammassivik is only 2.5 km north .

history

Sarfaa was founded in 1913 as a fishing station. The place belonged to the municipality of Sydprøven. In 1919 Sarfaa had 11 residents who lived in two Greenlandic houses. There was a 150 m² fish house with a salt factory on site, a petroleum house and a storage shed. The fishery manager lived in the attic of the fish house. It was considered to make the station to Udsted , but the place was abandoned again in 1922.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
  2. ^ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab district. Bopladser i Julianehaab district. Fiskeristationen Sarfâ . 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. 517 ( 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. 47 .