Sarfannguit

Sarfannguit (small current (s))
Sarfanguit
Commune	Qeqqata communia
District	Sisimiut
Geographical location	66 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  N , 52 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 66 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  N , 52 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  W
Residents	96 (January 1, 2020)
founding	1843
Time zone	UTC-3

Sarfannguit [ ˌsɑˈfːaŋːuitˢʰ ] (also Sarfannguaq [ ˌsɑˈfːaŋːuɑq ], according to the old spelling Sarfánguit or Sarfánguaĸ ) is a Greenlandic settlement in the district of Sisimiut in the Qeqqata communia .

location

Sarfannguit is located on the eastern tip of the approximately 30 km long island of Sarfannguit Nunaat . The narrow strait Sarfannguit Ikerasaat separates Sarfannguit from the mainland and at the same time connects the two fjords Amerloq and Ikertooq . The only 2800 m² small island of Qeqertannguaq is located in the middle of the strait and thus reduces the connection between the two fjords to the 21 m narrow current Sarfannguaq and the 7 m narrow Sarfaa Kangilleq . The closest place to Sarfannguit is the district and municipal capital Sisimiut, 35 km to the west .

history

The sources for the establishment of Sarfannguit are contradictory. On the one hand, it is said that Sarfannguit was founded as Udsted in 1843, as the construction dates of the first trading buildings speak for. On the other hand, it is said that the place was built in 1847 as a facility. Next it is said that the place was an Udsted in 1850 with a residential house, team house and bacon house, whereby the team house speaks more for a plant.

From 1911 the place formed its own municipality in the colonial district of Holsteinsborg, which still included the Saqqarliit and Ikerasaarsuk residential areas . It was part of the 11th district electoral council of South Greenland.

In 1918 there were 122 people in Sarfannguit who lived in 15 Greenland houses. The Udsteds administrator's apartment was built in the year it was founded and was a story building. It was not inhabited in 1918, however, as the Udsteds administrator owned his own house. The provisions store also had a shop. It was built in 1854 and was also a 54 square meter building. The bacon house was built from wood in 1845, also had a fish shed and was 60 m² in size. The powder house was made of stone. The chapel was a half-timbered building with paneling. It measured 45 m², had three windows on each side and an altar, a kneeling bench and a baptismal font. There was also a stone school in the village, which was almost 18 m² in size. In addition to the Udsteds administrator and the trained catechist, a midwife and a cooper worked in Sarfannguit. Among the Greenlanders were 16 hunters and 8 fishermen who made their living from hunting seals, foxes, reindeer, whales and from fishing.

Between 1922 and 1944 a shop, a school chapel, a packing house, a new apartment for the Udsteds administrator and several fish houses were built. In 1948 the place received a new school, so that the school chapel from 1927 was only used as a church. Up to 1960 a maximum of 169 people lived in Sarfannguit.

From 1950 to 2008 Sarfannguit was part of the municipality of Sisimiut . Since then the place has belonged to the Qeqqata Communia .

Since 2018, Sarfannguit has been the only place within the UNESCO World Heritage Site Aasivissuit - Nipisat .

economy

Sarfannguit lives mainly from catching cod and striped sea wolf and hunting reindeer and musk ox as well as from tourism, since the place is close to the route of the Arctic Circle Trail . Sarfannguit is also a test area for wind energy production in Greenland.

Infrastructure and supply

Sarfannguit is served by the Royal Arctic Line every two weeks . In winter, dogsled or snowmobiles travel to Sisimiut and Kangerlussuaq . There is no heliport in Sarfannguit. The place is between Sisimiut and Kangerlussuaq, so there is the possibility of connecting Sarfannguit to the planned route between the two places.

The power supply is secured by Nukissiorfiit via a diesel power plant and as a test with wind energy. The water supply comes from the Tasersuaq on the other side of the fjord. Garbage and sewage are disposed of at the landfill.

Development

In Sarfannguit there is a day-care center, a primary school, a playground, a football field, a service building, an assembly building and a church.

See also : List of architectural monuments in Sarfannguit

Sons and daughters

• David Olsen (1870–1944), trade administrator and councilor

Population development

The population of Sarfannguit has remained very constant over the past 40 years.

panorama

Sarfannguit (2017)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ↑ Louis Bobe : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Holsteinsborg district. History . 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. 94 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Holsteinsborg District. Bopladser i Holsteinsborg district. Udstedet Sarfánguaĸ . 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. 77 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
4. ↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 97 f .
5. ↑ Aasivissuit - Nipisat at whc.unesco.org (.pdf)
6. ^ Sarfannguaq in Den Store Danske
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Sarfannguit at qeqqata.odeum.com
8. ↑ Population Sarfannguit 1977-2020 at bank.stat.gl