Umivik, Ammassalik
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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 natio ...
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 natio ...
. 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 ...
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See also

* Ammassalik wooden maps, made by a man named Kunit from Umivik


References


Further reading

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