Qoornoq

Qoornoq
Qoornoq
	Qoornoq Location within Greenland
	Coordinates: 64°32′00″N 51°05′40″W / 64.53333°N 51.09444°W
State	Kingdom of Denmark
Constituent country	Greenland
Municipality	Sermersooq
First settled	2200 BCE
Abandoned	1972
Time zone	UTC-03

Qoornoq (old spelling: Qôrnoq) is an uninhabited fishing village in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland.

History[edit]

The area was known to have been inhabited by the ancient pre-Inuit, Paleo-Eskimo people of the Saqqaq culture as far back as 2200 BC.^[1] It still contains archaeological ruins of ancient Inuit and Norse buildings. The site was excavated in 1952 and the remains of an old Norse farm and ancient tools were discovered.^[2] The outside walls of the farm are double hatched and contain several Inuit houses.^[2] The last permanent resident left in 1972. Descendants of former residents often come to their houses in the summer by boat.^[2]

Qoornoq also once had a railway used for transporting fish. The railway was used in the 1950s, with a small diesel-hydraulic locomotive hauling flat wagons full of fish. The line closed shortly before the town's last resident left.

Geography[edit]

Qoornoq is located on the northeastern coast of the Qoornuup Qeqertarsua Island in the Nuup Kangerlua fjord, to the northeast of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.

References[edit]

^ "Human history". Nuuk Tourism. Archived from the original on June 15, 2010. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c From Middle Ages to Colonial Times. Museum Tusculanum Press. 1997. p. 338. ISBN 87-635-1239-4.

[NT-1] "Human history". Nuuk Tourism. Archived from the original on June 15, 2010. Retrieved July 12, 2010.

[middleages-2] From Middle Ages to Colonial Times. Museum Tusculanum Press. 1997. p. 338. ISBN 87-635-1239-4.

[1]

[2]