Kekertarsuatsiaat ( grenl. Qeqertarsuatsiaat , Dat. Fiskenæsset ) is a village in the community of Sermerssook , southwestern Greenland .
| Village | |
| Kekertarsuatsiaat | |
|---|---|
| grenl. Qeqertarsuatsiaat | |
 | |
| A country |  Denmark |
| Self-governing community | Greenland |
| Commune | Sermersawok |
| History and Geography | |
| Based | 1754 |
| Square | |
| Population | |
| Population | 235 [1] people ( 2010 ) |
| Official language | Greenlandic |
The population is 273 people (January 2004 data), 248 people (2009 data). Port of Arctic Umiaq Line . Translated from Greenland, the name of the village means "a very large island."
History
Kekertarsuatsiaat was founded by Danish merchant Anders Olsen in 1754 as a trading post [2] . Like most trading posts, this was founded by the Danes in order to trade with the name of the locals], exchanging imported goods for seal skins and a whalebone [3] .
In the middle of the XVIII century , a Moravian mission was founded in Kekertarsuatsiaat , which converted the first local resident to Christianity in 1760 or 1761, after which the village population grew and reached 300 people, that is, the village became one of the largest in Greenland at that time [4] .
In 1815, near the village, one of its inhabitants killed the last known Wingless Duck [5] on a hunt.
Notes
- ↑ Statistics Greenland Archived on July 21, 2011. (Danish)
- ↑ Brewster, David. " Greenland Archived March 7, 2016. ". The Edinburgh Encyclopedia , Vol 10. J. & E. Parker, 1832.
- ↑ Kane, Elisha Kent. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition Archived March 10, 2016. . 1856.
- ↑ " Mission in Greenland Archived March 7, 2016. ". The Christian Library: Comprising a Series of Standard Works in Religious Literature. Key & Biddle, 1833.
- ↑ Suluk 2010 No.1 (PDF). Air Greenland. Date of appeal July 16, 2010. (unavailable link)