Ungilak

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Ungilak
Ungilak
Commune Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq
District Paamiut
Geographical location 61 ° 59 '35 "  N , 49 ° 29' 13"  W Coordinates: 61 ° 59 '35 "  N , 49 ° 29' 13"  W.
Ungilak (Greenland)
Ungilak
Residents 0
(1947)
founding 1940
Time zone UTC-3

Ungilak [ uŋiˈlak ] (according to the old spelling Ungilak ) is a desolate Greenlandic settlement in the Paamiut district in the Sermersooq commune .

location

Ungilak is on a small cape on the same peninsula as Paamiut , nine kilometers to the west. The fjord Eqaluit runs before Ungilak .

history

Ungilak was only inhabited for a short time and is not considered an official place to live. Between 1940 and 1946, an average of twelve people lived in Ungilak.

Individual evidence

  1. Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
  2. Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 66 f .