Itterajivit (also ''Ittaajimmiut'' or ''Igterajivit''), formerly Kap Hope, was a small village in the
Sermersooq
Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital ...
municipality in eastern
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 abandoned in late 2005.
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It was the last remaining populated settlement outside Ittoqqortoormiit
Ittoqqortoormiit (East Greenlandic: ; West Greenlandic: ''Illoqqortoormiut'' ), formerly known as Scoresbysund, is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland. Its population was 345 as of 2020 and has been described as one of ...
, located on 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 James ...
, across the Rosenvinge bay to the west of the town. It was featured in the TV show Departures.
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{{Abandoned sites in Greenland
Former populated places in Greenland