Iluileq (named 'Ilivilik' in old maps) is an uninhabited island in the
Kujalleq
Kujalleq (Greenlandic language, Greenlandic: , ) is a municipality on the southern tip of Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The administrative center of the municipality is in Qaqortoq (formerly called Julianehåb).
Creation
The munic ...
municipality in southern
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 Greenlan ...
.
History
Wilhelm August Graah (1793–1863) met groups of
Southeast-Greenland Inuit on the island during his 1828–30 expedition. He was impressed by some of the women, finding them more beautiful and cleaner compared with the West Greenlandic women he had known.
In June 1870 Iluileq was the place where the crew of the ''Hansa'', the supply ship of the
Second German North Polar Expedition was finally able to land after their ship became separated from the ''
Germania
Germania ( ; ), also more specifically called Magna Germania (English: ''Great Germania''), Germania Libera (English: ''Free Germania''), or Germanic Barbaricum to distinguish it from the Roman provinces of Germania Inferior and Germania Superio ...
'', drifted with the ice pack and sank. The crew drifted on the sea ice southward and after nearly eleven months finally reached Iluileq by boat. They found no Inuit on the island. From there they followed the shore southwards until they reached the
Moravian ''Herrnhut'' mission at
Friedrichsthal (modern
Narsaq Kujalleq) near
Cape Farewell, from where they got back to Germany on a Danish ship.
Geography
Iluileq is a coastal island that lies off
King Frederick VI Coast
King Frederick VI Coast () is a major geographic division of Greenland. It comprises the coastal area of Southeastern Greenland in Sermersooq and Kujalleq municipalities fronting the Irminger Sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by King ...
in southeastern Greenland. It is located at the head of
Iluileq Fjord
Iluileq () is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 100
This fjord was named by Wilhelm August Graah after
David Danell, a Dutch ...
(Danell Fjord), on the northern side of it. A small narrow fjord branch or sound separates Iluileq from the mainland on its NW side and
Kangerluk Fjord opens its mouth just north of the eastern end of the sound. The island's length is and its maximum width .
Iluileq has rugged cliffs, its highest point reaching . Off the eastern end of the island's coast lies
Cape Discord
Cape Discord (), also known as Kangeq, is a headland in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast Greenland, Kujalleq municipalities of Greenland, municipality.
History
Cape Discord was named in old maps before Lieutenant Wilhelm August Graah passed i ...
(Kangeq) and off its southern shore lies the small cluster of islets named
Ivingmiut.
Iluileq Map
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See also
*List of islands of Greenland
The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many of these islands have both a Kalaallisut language name and a Indo-European languages, European language name.
Islands and archipelagoes
*Aaluik
*Aasiaat
*Achton Friis Is ...
References
External links
Den grønlandske Lods - Geodatastyrelsen
{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013092046/http://gst.dk/media/2915914/den-groenlandske-lods-sejladsanvisniner-oestgroenland.pdf , date=2016-10-13
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Kujalleq