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Ittoqqortoormiit
Ittoqqortoormiit (; ), formerly known as Scoresbysund, is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland. Its population was 345 as of 2020, and it has been described as one of the most remote settlements on Earth. The former name Scoresbysund derives from the English Arctic explorer and whaler William Scoresby, who was the first European to map the area in 1822. The name "Ittoqqortoormiit" means "big house dwellers" in the Eastern Greenlandic language, Greenlandic dialect. The region is known for its wildlife, including polar bears, musk ox, muskoxen, and seals. Geography Ittoqqortoormiit is located on Liverpool Land, east of Hurry Inlet near the mouth of the northern shore of the Scoresby Sund, Kangertittivaq fjord, which empties into the Greenland Sea. The time zone in Ittoqqortoormiit is UTC-02:00, the same as most of Greenland's population. Until March 2024 it had previously been one hour ahead of most of Greenland. History Ittoqqortoormiit was founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sermersooq
Sermersooq () is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five previous, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital of Greenland, and it is the most populous municipality in the country, with 23,123 inhabitants as of January 2020. Creation The municipality consists of former municipalities of eastern and southwestern Greenland, each named after the largest settlement at the time of formation: * Ammassalik Municipality * Ittoqqortoormiit Municipality * Ivittuut Municipality * Nuuk Municipality * Paamiut Municipality Administrative divisions Ammassalik area * Tasiilaq (Ammassalik) * Kuummiit (Oscarshavn) * Kulusuk (Kap Dan) * Tiniteqilaaq * Sermiligaaq * Isortoq Ittoqqortoormiit area * Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund) * Itterajivit Ivittuut area * Kangilinnguit (Grønnedal) Nuuk area * Nuuk (Godthåb) * Kapisillit (Lakskaj) * Qeqertarsuatsiaat (Fiskenæs) Paamiut area * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scoresby Sund
Scoresby Sound (Danish: ''Scoresby Sund'', Greenlandic: ''Kangertittivaq'') is a large fjord system of the Greenland Sea on the eastern coast of Greenland. It has a tree-like structure, with a main body approximately Scoresby Sund Encyclopædia Britannica on-line long that branches into a system of s covering an area of about . The longest of the fjords extends inland from the coastline. The depth is in the main basin, but depths increase to up to in some fjords. It is one of the largest and longest fjord systems in the world.Archaeology, p. 7 On the northern side of the mouth of the Scoresby Sound stands |
Hurry Inlet
Hurry Inlet (; , meaning 'The Little Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. It is part of the Scoresby Sound system. Administratively it lies in the area of Sermersooq municipality. Nerlerit Inaat Airport is located on the western side of the fjord. People from nearby Ittoqqortoormiit like to go to Hurry Inlet to fish Arctic char for recreational purposes.Hanne Tuborg Sandell, Birger Sandell, ''Archaeology and Environment in the Scoresby Sund Fjord'', p. 120 History The Hurry Inlet was named "Hurry’s Inlet" in 1822 by William Scoresby (1789–1857) in honour of Nicholas Hurry, the owner of his ship, the ''Baffin''. Scoresby assumed that it was a sound that connected with Carlsberg Fjord to the north and that Liverpool Land was an island. Carl Ryder found that the fjord was a dead end and not a marine channel in 1895. The name often appears as "Hurry Fjord" on Danish maps. There are ancient Inuit ruins by the fjord. Geography This fjord is located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Greenland Time
Denmark, including its dependencies of Faroe Islands and Greenland, and metropolitan Denmark, uses six time zones. Time zones Central European Time UTC+01:00 as standard time, and UTC+02:00 as daylight saving time, with transition dates according to the European Union rules. *All of Denmark proper. **Including Copenhagen, Aarhus and Rønne (Bornholm) :The UTC+01:00 centerline ( 15°E) goes through Bornholm, approximately 2 kilometers from Gudhjem, in the far eastern Denmark, while Copenhagen at 12°34′E corresponds to UTC+0:50, and the west coast at 8°6′E corresponds to UTC+0:32. :An 1893 law set the ''de jure'' standard time of Denmark as the mean solar time 15°E of Greenwich, for all of Denmark, with an exception for the Faroe Islands, effective at 1 January 1894. This linked the standard time in Denmark to Earth's rotation, and clocks in Denmark were considered to be at noon, when the sun is directly above the 15° Eastern meridian. As Earth's rotation is not com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenlandic Language
Greenlandic, also known by its Endonym and exonym, endonym Kalaallisut (, ), is an Inuit languages, Inuit language belonging to the Eskaleut languages#Internal classification, Eskimoan branch of the Eskaleut languages, Eskaleut language family. It is primarily spoken by the Greenlandic Inuit, Greenlandic people native to Greenland; and has about native speakers as of 2025. Written in the Latin script, it is the sole official language of Greenland; and a recognized minority language in Denmark. It is closely related to the Inuit languages in Canada such as Inuktitut. It is the most widely spoken Eskaleut language. In June 2009, the government of Greenland, the Naalakkersuisut, made Greenlandic the sole official language of the autonomous territory, to strengthen it in the face of competition from the Linguistic imperialism, colonial language, Danish language, Danish. The main Variety (linguistics), variety is West Greenlandic, Kalaallisut, or West Greenlandic. The second variety ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenland are full Danish nationality law, citizens of Denmark and European Union citizenship, of the European Union. Greenland is one of the Special territories of members of the European Economic Area#Overseas countries and territories, Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union and is part of the Council of Europe. It is the List of islands by area, world's largest island, and lies between the Arctic Ocean, Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Arctic Archipelago, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the location of the northernmost point of land in the world; Kaffeklubben Island off the northern coast is the world's Northernmost point of land, northernmost undisputed point of land—Cape Morris Jesup on the mainland was thought to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool Land
Liverpool Land is a peninsula in eastern Greenland. Geography The peninsula is bounded by Scoresby Sund in the south, Carlsberg Fjord in the northwest, '' Kangerterajiva'' (Hurry Inlet) in the southwest, the Greenland Sea in the east, and Jameson Land in the west. It was named by William Scoresby, who thought that Hurry Inlet had a confluence with Carlsberg Fjord, separating Liverpool Land from Jameson Land. The fjord-rich peninsula is long from Kap Greville in the north to Uunarteq () in the south, up to wide, and measures about in area. It is connected to Jameson Land over a length of . A large part of Liverpool Land is mountainous, the Didrik Pining Range and the Heywood Range are located in the peninsula. Warming Island is located approximately off the northeastern tip of Liverpool Land. Storefjord indents the peninsula from the east about , almost cutting it into two. The southern coast of Liverpool Land is the location of the town of Ittoqqortoormiit and of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Scoresby
William Scoresby (5 October 178921 March 1857) was an English whaler, Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman. Early years Scoresby was born in the village of Cropton near Pickering south-west of Whitby in Yorkshire. His father, William Scoresby (1760–1829), made a fortune in the Arctic whale fishery and was also the inventor of the barrel crow's nest. The son made his first voyage with his father at the age of eleven, but then returned to school, where he remained until 1803. After this he became his father's constant companion, and accompanied him as chief officer of the whaler ''Resolution'' when on 25 May 1806, he succeeded in reaching 81°30' N. lat. (19° E. long), for twenty-one years the highest northern latitude attained in the eastern hemisphere. During the following winter, Scoresby attended the natural philosophy and chemistry classes at Edinburgh University, and again in 1809. Scientist In his voyage of 1807, Scoresby began the study of the meteorology a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Administrative Divisions Of Greenland
Greenland is divided into five municipalities and two unincorporated areas. The municipalities are Avannaata, Kujalleq, Qeqertalik, Qeqqata, and Sermersooq.Statistics Greenland''Greenland in Figures, 2014''/ref> Northeast Greenland National Park is a huge unincorporated area that is outside the municipalities and larger than any of them. Pituffik Space Base is a small unincorporated enclave surrounded by the Avannaata municipality and administered by the United States Space Force. Municipalities History Greenland was divided into two inspectorates in 1782 – North Greenland, with its capital at Godhavn (now called Qeqertarsuaq), and South Greenland, with its capital at Godthaab (now Nuuk). These were directed by inspectors until 1924, then by governors. The two divisions were amalgamated in 1950 and the administration centralized at Godthaab. In 1953 a new constitution of Denmark promoted Greenland to full membership in the Danish state, with all of its inhabitant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eskimonæs
Clavering Island () is a large island in eastern Greenland off Gael Hamke Bay, to the south of Wollaston Foreland. The Eskimonæs radio and weather station was on this island. It was staffed by Danish scientists and was captured by German troops in 1943. The place where the station stood had also been the location of the last Inuit settlement in Northeast Greenland around 1823. History The island was named by the second German North Polar Expedition 1869–70 as ''Clavering Insel'' (German for island) to commemorate Douglas Charles Clavering (1794–1827), commander of the '' Griper'' on the 1823 voyage, which explored the area and, at the southern shore of this island made the first (and last) encounter that Europeans made with the now extinct Northeast-Greenland Inuit. In late August 1823, Clavering and the crew of the ''Griper'' encountered a band of twelve Inuit, including men, women and children. In his journal, Clavering described their seal-skin tent, canoe, and cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
