Narsarmijit
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Narsarmijit Frederiksdal |
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 Narsarmijit
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| Coordinates: 60°00′17″N 44°39′55″W / 60.00472°N 44.66528°WCoordinates: 60°00′17″N 44°39′55″W / 60.00472°N 44.66528°W | |
| State |
 Kingdom of Denmark
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| Constituent country |
 Greenland
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| Municipality |
 Kujalleq
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| Government | |
| • Mayor | Augo Simonsen |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 97 |
| Time zone | UTC-03 |
| Postal code | 3922 Nanortalik |
Narsarmijit (IATA: QFN), formerly Frederiksdal, is a settlement in southern Greenland. It is located in the Kujalleq municipality near Cape Thorvaldsen. Its population was 97 in 2010. There has been a slow but steady pattern of emigration since the late 1950s.
Narsarmijit is the southernmost settlement in the country, located approximately 50 kilometers (31 mi) north of Cape Farewell, the southern cape of Greenland.
The city is located in the area of the easternmost of the Norse settlements during their colonization of Greenland. The former village of Ikigait is roughly 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) away and was the site of Herjólfr Bárðarson's farm Herjolfsnes ("Herjolf's Point").
The Moravian missionary Conrad Kleinschmidt (1768–1832) founded the station of Friedrichsthal (Danish: Frederiksdal, lit. "Frederick's Valley") in 1824. The name honored Frederick VI of Denmark. The station was the Moravian's fourth, after Neu-Herrnhut (1733), Lichtenfels (1748), and Lichtenau (1774) and before Umanak (1861) and Idlorpait (1864). All the Greenland missions were surrendered to the Lutheran church in 1900. In the 19th century, the area served as a prime territory for sealing. Members of the settlement rescued the survivors of the ill-fated German polar expedition's Hansa in 1870. In 1906, pastor Jens Chemnitz founded Greenland's first sheep farm in Narsarmijit; the industry has since moved north to the larger pastures around Narsaq.
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