Uummannaarsuk

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Uummannaarsuk (small heart-shaped rock)
Ũmánârssuk
Commune Qeqqata communia
District Sisimiut
Geographical location 66 ° 50 ′ 40 "  N , 53 ° 34 ′ 21"  W Coordinates: 66 ° 50 ′ 40 "  N , 53 ° 34 ′ 21"  W
Uummannaarsuk (Greenland)
Uummannaarsuk
Residents 0
(1963)
Time zone UTC-3

Uummannaarsuk [ ˌuːmːaˈnːɑːsːuk ] (according to the old spelling Ũmánârssuk ) is a deserted Greenland settlement in the district of Sisimiut in the Qeqqata Kommunia .

location

Uummannaarsuk is located on an island of the same name south of the Amerloq estuary . Sisimiut is eleven kilometers north .

history

Uummannaarsuk was settled at an unknown date in the first half of the 1920s. In 1930 there were 45 inhabitants. In 1933 a school chapel and a fish house were built. In 1947 there were 67 people living in Uummannaarsuk. From 1952 it is known that the fishery was very unprofitable. In 1962 Uummannaarsuk was given up.

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. 97 .