Umivik is an abandoned settlement at
Ammassalik Fjord
Ammassalik Fjord (old spelling: ''Angmagssalik Fjord'') is a long fjord in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland.
Geography
The head of the fjord at is formed by the confluence of two narrow, tributary fjords: ''Qingertivaq ...
. As of the winter of 1884–5, 19 Inuit lived there in a single dwelling.
The U.S.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national ...
classifies Umiviik/Umîvik as a ruin at ,
[ (]Unique Feature Identifier
Unique Feature Identifier or UFI, also known as “UF”
, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national ...
. 20 April 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2010. which is on the west side of
Apusiaajik Island
Apusiaajik Island (old spelling: ''Apusiâjik'') is an uninhabited island in the Sermersooq municipality on the southeastern shore of Greenland.Tasiilaq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 It is an outlying island in the Ammassalik archipelago of islan ...
.
See also
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Ammassalik wooden maps
Ammassalik wooden maps are carved, tactile maps of the Greenlandic coastlines. In the 1880s, Gustav Holm led an expedition to the Ammassalik coast of eastern Greenland, where he met several Tunumiit, or Eastern Greenland Inuit communities, who ha ...
, made by a man named Kunit from Umivik
References
Further reading
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Former populated places in Greenland
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