Narsarmijit
Frederiksthal[1] | |
|---|---|
  Narsarmijit Location within Greenland | |
| Coordinates: 60°00′17″N 44°39′55″W / 60.00472°N 44.66528°W | |
| State |  Kingdom of Denmark |
| Constituent country |  Greenland |
| Municipality |  Kujalleq |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Augo Simonsen |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 66 |
| Time zone | UTC-03 |
| Postal code | 3922 Nanortalik |
Narsarmijit,[3][4] formerly Narsaq Kujalleq and Frederiksdal (Anglicised: Frederiksthal), is a settlement in southern Greenland. It is located in the Kujalleq municipality near Cape Thorvaldsen. Its population was 66 in 2020.[5] There has been a slow but steady pattern of emigration since the late 1950s.
- ^ Sabine, Edward (1872). "Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism. No. XIII". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 162: 353–433. ISSN 0261-0523.
- ^ Kujalleq Municipality Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine (in Danish)
- ^ The name is from the local dialect of Greenlandic. The standard Kalaallisut name Narsaq Kujalleq was used briefly. Their pre-1973 spellings were Narsamiit and Narssak Kujatdlek or Narsak. In both dialects, the name means "Dwellers from the Plains".
- ^ Jensen, Einar Lund & al. Monographs on Greenland: Man & Society: Cultural Encounters at Cape Farewell: The East Greenland Immigrants and the German Moravian Mission in the 19th Century. Museum Tusculanum Press, 2011. ISBN 87-635-3165-8.
- ^ "Population by Localities". Statistical Greenland. Retrieved 7 April 2020.