Ukkusissat

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Ukkusissat (soapstone)
Uvkusigssat
Ukkusissat (2009)
Ukkusissat (2009)
Commune Avannaata Communia
District Uummannaq
Geographical location 71 ° 2 '57 "  N , 51 ° 53' 15"  W Coordinates: 71 ° 2 '57 "  N , 51 ° 53' 15"  W.
Ukkusissat (Greenland)
Ukkusissat
Residents 154
(January 1, 2020)
founding 1794
Time zone UTC-3

Ukkusissat [ ˈukːuˌsisːatˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Uvkusigssat ) is a Greenlandic settlement in the district of Uummannaq in the Avannaata Kommunia .

location

Ukkusissat lies at the end of an almost rectangular peninsula bounded by the Perlerfiup Kangerlua fjord in the north and the Torsukattak sound in the south. 24 km to the northeast is the abandoned mining settlement Maamorilik on an arm of the Perlerfiup Kangerlua . The closest still inhabited place is Saattut , which is 28 km south.

history

Ukkusissat was founded in 1794 as an attempt to catch yarn because the area was rich in seals. In 1798 there were 28 people in Ukkusissat, all of whom were baptized. While the place originally only served as an Udsted in winter , it was operated permanently from 1800. In 1805 the place had only 18 inhabitants. Ukkusissat was the only Udsted in the colonial district that was continuously active during the war from 1807 to 1814. After that, the population grew sharply due to immigration. In 1905 73 people lived in Ukkusissat.

In 1911 Ukkusissat became a separate community in the colonial district of Uummannaq. Appat , Qeqertat and Perlerfik still belonged to the community . The parish council consisted of three members. The municipality was part of the 10th district electoral council of North Greenland.

In 1915 Ukkusissat had only 53 residents who lived in seven houses. The Udsteds administrator's apartment was from 1917 and was a 56 m² half-timbered building with double board cladding and roof shingles. The shop was built of wood in 1907 and was 16 square meters. There was also a coal house, which was built as a peat wall house and two bacon houses, one of which was made of stone from 1867 and the more recent one was built of wood in 1906. The school chapel dates from 1842 and was around 70 m² in size and built in the Greenland style. Originally it served as a school in Uummannaq and was moved to Ukkusissat in 1898. In 1915, seven hunters, two fishermen, the Udsteds administrator, a catechist and a midwife worked in Ukkusissat.

In 1923 there was a major landslide and they considered giving up Ukkusissat, but this did not happen. In 1928 a new school chapel was built. In the spring of 1930 Alfred Wegener's Greenland expedition waited 38 days in Ukkusissat for ice conditions that would allow the equipment to be transported to Qaamarujuup Sermia . The expedition was unable to catch up with the delay. Wegener died on the inland ice in November , his companion Rasmus Villumsen from Ukkusissat was never found. In honor of both of them there is a German-Greenlandic memorial plaque in Ukkusissat. In 1939 another chapel was built in Ukkusissat. Between 1930 and 1950 the place had 52 to 65 inhabitants. In 1960 the population had risen to 115 people and in 1970 there were 184 people in the village.

From 1950 Ukkusissat was part of the municipality of Uummannaq . Since the administrative reform in 2009, the place belonged to the Qaasuitsup Kommunia . Ukkusissat has been part of the Avannaata Kommunia since 2018 .

economy

The main industry in Ukkusissat is the catch of black halibut , of which around 4.5 tons per day are processed in the local fish factory.

Infrastructure and supply

The port of Ukkusissat is located on a small cape in the south of the village. Smaller fishing boats lie in the bay to the east. The place is connected to air traffic via the Ukkusissat heliport , while the rest of the transport is via dog sleds and snowmobiles .

Nukissiorfiit supplies the town with electricity from a power station at the port. The water is supplied in summer by a river south of Ukkusissat, where enough water is collected for the winter months. The heat is supplied by private oil stoves. The garbage is collected at the landfill in the north of the village and then incinerated while sewage is discharged into the sea. TELE Greenland is responsible for telecommunications in town.

Development

Ukkusissat viewed from the air (2009)

The Atuarfik Perlerfik teaches about 27 students up to the ninth grade. The school also houses a library and is used as a leisure club outside of school hours. There is a Pilersuisoq branch in the village for supplying the residents with goods and a service building with sanitary facilities. In Ukkusissat there is also a sewing shop, an assembly building, a village office, several kiosks, a community workshop and an infirmary. In the middle of the village is the church with the associated cemetery. Far to the south there is a playground and a soccer field. Four of the buildings in Ukkusissat are classified as worthy of preservation, the oldest of which was built in 1867.

Sons and daughters

Population development

The population of Ukkusissat rose sharply to 230 people by the year 2000 and has since fallen by a third, so that it is at the same level as in 1977.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
  2. ^ A b Alfred Bertelsen , Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Ũmánaĸ district. De grandson Bopladser. Uvkusigssat . 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. 417 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ A b c Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 167 .
  4. ^ Alfred Wegener : Alfred Wegener's last Greenland trip in the Gutenberg-DE project
  5. ^ Sabine Barth: Greenland . 3. Edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2015, ISBN 978-3-7701-7398-3 , p. 231 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ a b c Ukkusissat at qaasuitsup-kp.cowi.webhouse.dk
  7. ↑ Population of Ukkusissat 1977–2020 at bank.stat.gl