Utoqqarmiut (Nuuk)

Utoqqarmiut (inhabitant of the old)
Utorĸarmiut
Commune	Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq
District	Nuuk
Geographical location	63 ° 47 '57 "  N , 51 ° 27' 0"  W Coordinates: 63 ° 47 '57 "  N , 51 ° 27' 0"  W.
Residents	0 (1963)
Time zone	UTC-3

Utoqqarmiut [ utɔqːɑmːiutˢʰ ] (after the old spelling Utorĸarmiut ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the Nuuk district in the communeqarfik Sermersooq .

location

Utoqqarmiut is located in a rugged area on the north bank of the exit of Utoqqarmiut Kangerluarsunnguat (Buksefjord). The nearest inhabited place is Nuuk 44 km north. It is 88 km to the south to Qeqertarsuatsiaat .

history

Utoqqarmiut was settled before 1886. Until 1900 the place belonged to the Moravian Brethren . From 1911 the living space was part of the Narsaq .

In 1918 there were 25 residents who lived in three houses. Among the residents were six hunters who made their living mainly from seal hunts. There was no school building and the children were taught by one of the hunters without training in his home.

Between 1930 and 1947, 29 to 43 people lived in Utoqqarmiut. The population subsequently fell until Utoqqarmiut was abandoned in 1962.

A helicopter crashed six kilometers north-northwest of Utoqqarmiut in 1973 , killing fifteen people.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ↑ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Godthaab district. Bopladser i Godthaab district. Bopladsen Utorĸarmiut . 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. 261 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 80 f .
4. ↑ 15 dræbt ved helikopterstyrt in the Atuagagdliutit of November 8, 1973