Sermilik (Nanortalik)

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Sermilik (place of ice)
Sermilik
Commune Kujalleq municipality
District Nanortalics
Geographical location 60 ° 27 '2 "  N , 44 ° 56' 48"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 27 '2 "  N , 44 ° 56' 48"  W.
Sermilik (Greenland)
Sermilik
Residents 0
(1956)
founding 1799/1939
Time zone UTC-3

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

location

Sermilik is located at the end of a small peninsula between the fjord of the same name and the small fjord Kangikitsoq . The Sarfaa strait separates this peninsula from the island of Amitsoq, just in front of Sermilik . The nearest inhabited places from Sermilik are Ammassivik 29 km northwest, Alluitsup Paa 34 km west, Nanortalik 38 km south-southwest and Tasiusaq 29 km south.

history

Sermilik was settled in 1799. The place originally belonged to the Moravian Brethren . From 1911 the residential area belonged to the municipality of Nanortalik.

In 1919, 48 people lived in Sermilik, including eight hunters, three fishermen and a reader, who lived in nine houses, all of which were poorly built. This was mainly due to the poverty that prevailed among the residents. Because the place was so far in the fjord, it was not very suitable for hunting. That is why the inhabitants lived mainly from fishing. In the summer the men went on hunting trips and some seals and foxes were caught.

During the mining period on Amitsoq Island, the residents of Sermilik were forbidden to stay near the graphite quarry. Nevertheless, people kept coming to Amitsoq with kayaks until 1922, until the forced relocation of the residents of Grønlands Landsråd was proposed. In 1923, Sermilik was actually given up for the time being. When Tuapaat was to be given up in 1934 , the necessary relocation was justified by the Sermilik case, but Greenlanders were never otherwise relocated against their will.

In 1939 the living space was repopulated. A school chapel was built, but no fish house. Around 90 people lived in Sermilik during the Second World War, but the population subsequently fell again. From 1950 Sermilik belonged to the new municipality Nanortalik . In 1954 the place had only 21 residents. In 1955 Sermilik was finally given up.

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. Bopladsen Sermilik . 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. 527 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. 51 f .