Ikermiut is a former settlement in
Avannaata
Avannaata (, da, Det Nordlige, lit=The Northern) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality. It encompasses an area of 522,700 km2 and has 10,726 inhabitants.
Geography
In ...
municipality in northwestern
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ...
. It was located on
Ikermiut Island
Ikermiut Island is a small, uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, located in the center of Inussulik Bay in the northern part of Upernavik Archipelago, approximately halfway between Kiatassuaq Island in the north ...
in the center of
Inussulik Bay, a bay in the northern part of
Upernavik Archipelago.
[''Upernavik Avannarleq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992] The settlement was abandoned in 1954 in favor of more northerly settlements of
Nuussuaq and
Kullorsuaq, due to rough sea waves of Inussulik Bay overflowing the island.
References
Former populated places in Greenland
Inussulik Bay
Upernavik Archipelago
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