Sermiarsuit

Sermiarsuit (small glaciers)
	Sermiarssuit
Commune	Avannaata Communia
District	Uummannaq
Geographical location	70 ° 34 '38 " N , 52 ° 5' 17" W Coordinates: 70 ° 34 '38 " N , 52 ° 5' 17" W.
Residents	0 ; (1965)
Time zone	UTC-3

Sermiarsuit [ ˌsɜmːiˈɑsːuitˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Sermiarssuit ) is a desolate Greenlandic settlement in the district of Uummannaq in the Avannaata Kommunia .

location

Sermiarsuit is located on the north coast of the Nuussuaq peninsula on the Uummannap Kangerlua fjord . Uummannaq is eleven kilometers north . The nearest inhabited place on the peninsula is Qaarsut 26 km northwest.

history

Sermiarsuit may have been continuously inhabited since the 18th century. In 1793, 25 people lived there, 16 of whom were still unbaptized. Five years later, 21 people were counted, all of whom were now baptized. In 1805 only 18 people lived in sermiarsuit. In 1850 there were again 84 and in 1905 57.

In 1915, 47 people lived in sermiarsuit and lived in seven houses. There were 14 hunters, one of whom worked as a reader, as well as a fisherman. In 1935 a school chapel was built and later a small fish house. In 1952 the local fishermen caught only 232 kg of fish per capita. By 1947 the population rose to 75 people. Then she went back and the place has been deserted since 1964.

Sermiarsuit was the only place to live in Uummannaq parish until 1950. Then the place was incorporated into the new community Uummannaq .

Individual evidence

↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
^ Alfred Bertelsen , Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Ũmánaĸ district. De grandson Bopladser. Sermiarssuit . 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. 391 f . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 173 f .

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

[2] Alfred Bertelsen , Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Ũmánaĸ district. De grandson Bopladser. Sermiarssuit . 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. 391 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. 173 f .