Kangeq
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Kangeq or Kangek (Kalaallisut: "Promontory") is a former settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. It is located on the same island that formed the first Danish-Norwegian colony on Greenland between 1721 and 1728.
History
As a coastal settlement, Kangeq was positioned on the migration route of the ancient Inuit peoples. Archeological finds from the Dorset culture era have been found near Kangeq.[1] The Dorset people had vanished from the Nuuk region prior to 1000 CE.[1]
The island of Kangeq, dubbed Håbets Ø ("Island of Hope"), formed the site of Hans Egede's first settlement in Greenland after his landing on 3 July 1721.[2] The settlement was relocated to the mainland by Major Claus Paarss in 1728.[3]
In the mid-19th century, it was also home to the artist Aron of Kangeq (1822–1869), a Greenlandic Inuk hunter, painter, and oral historian.[4] In 1854, Kangeq became an official trading station, and an official residence was built for the assistant representing the Royal Greenland Trade Department.[5]
Today the ruins of Kangeq are sometimes visited by historically oriented tourists.[6] In 2009, the old houses of Kangeq were used as a backdrop for the Eksperimentet film, with the settlement emulating the look of Nuuk in 1952.[7]
Geography
Kangeq was located in an island at the mouth of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord,[8] on the coast of the Labrador Sea, approximately Script error: No such module "convert". west-south-west of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.[5]
Former notable residents
- Aron of Kangeq (1822–1869), painter and oral historian[9]
References
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