Akunnaat
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Location within Greenland | |
Coordinates: 63°03′00″N 50°24′36″W / 63.05000°N 50.41000°W / 63.05000; -50.41000 | |
State | Kingdom of Denmark |
Constituent country | Greenland |
Municipality | Sermersooq |
Time zone | UTC-03 |
Akunnaat (older spelling: Akúnât) is a former community in southern Greenland on the island of Akonemiok[1] or Qeqertarsuatsiaat,[2][3] 3 miles (4.8 km) from the trading post of Fisher's Inlet (Danish: Fiskernæsset, the modern settlement of Qeqertarsuatsiaat).
The settlement was founded as the Moravian missionofLichtenfels (variously translated from the German as "Light Rock",[1] "Light of the Rock",[4] or "Rock of Light"[5]) by Matthias Stach, the brothers Jens and Peter Haven,[6] and four Inuit families in 1748,[7] 1754,[1] 1757,[6] or 1758.[8] Following the first conversions in 1760[8] or 1761,[6] the population of the settlement rose to around 300.[8] The mission was surrendered to the Lutheran Church of Denmark in 1900.[9]
Abandoned sites in Greenland
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