Ritenbenck, Ritenbenk or Ritenbench ( kl, Appat) is a former settlement on

Appat Island Appat Island (old spelling: ''Agpat'') is an uninhabitedNo ...

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

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 i ...

. The island is located in the

Uummannaq Fjord Uummannaq Fjord is a large fjord system in the northern part of western Greenland, the largest after Kangertittivaq fjord in eastern Greenland. It has a roughly south-east to west-north-west orientation, emptying into the Baffin Bay in the nor ...

. Ritenbenck was founded in 1755 by the

General Trade Company The General Trade Company ( da, Det almindelige Handelskompagni) was a Dano-Norwegian trading company charged with administering the realm's settlements and trade in Greenland. The company existed from 1747 to 1774 and managed the government of Gre ...

.Marquardt, Ole.
Change and Continuity in Denmark's Greenland Policy
in ''The Oldenburg Monarchy: An Underestimated Empire?''. Verlag Ludwig (Kiel), 2006. The name was an anagram of the GTC's then-chairman Christian August Berckentin (1694–1758).Del, Anden.
Grønland som del af den bibelske fortælling – en 1700-tals studie
". Accessed 2 May 2012.

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Former populated places in Greenland {{greenland-geo-stub

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