Qeqertarsuatsiaat
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Qeqertarsuatsiaat Fiskenæsset Fisher's Inlet |
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 Qeqertarsuatsiaat
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| Coordinates: 63°05′20″N 50°40′40″W / 63.08889°N 50.67778°WCoordinates: 63°05′20″N 50°40′40″W / 63.08889°N 50.67778°W | |
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 Kingdom of Denmark
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| Constituent country |
 Greenland
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| Municipality |
 Sermersooq
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| Founded | 1754 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Morten Johnsen |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 235 |
| Time zone | UTC-03 |
| Postal code | 3900 Nuuk |
Qeqertarsuatsiaat, formerly Fiskernæs or Fiskenæsset, is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland, located on an island off the shores of Labrador Sea. Its population was 235 in 2010.
Kikertarsocitsiak or Qeqertarsuatsiaat has long been the local name for the island (Kalaallisut: "Rather Large Island"). It was first settled by the Danes as Fiskernæs in 1754. The name was often anglicized as Fisher's Inlet.
The trading post was founded by the merchant Anders Olsen on behalf of the Danish General Trade Company, which was granted a royal monopoly on trade in Greenland but only in and around its settlements. Like most Greenlandic trading posts, it was a location for the Danes to trade imported goods for seal skins and seal and whale blubber gathered by Kalaallit in the area. Unusually, the settlement became the early center of Greenland's salmon and cod fisheries and it was as common to see the large "woman's boat" or umiak as the smaller hunting kayaks.
In 1748, 1754, 1757, or 1758, the Moravian mission of Lichtenfels was established in another inlet of the same island by Matthias Stach and four families from New Herrnhut. The first conversions were not made until 1760 or 1761, but afterwards the population of the settlement rose to around 300 and was for a time the largest village in Greenland. All urbanization in Greenland was negatively affected by the Royal Greenland Trading Department (KGH)'s Instruction of 1782, aimed at protecting the company's income by maintaining the Inuit in their traditional roles as nomadic hunters. The mission was surrendered to the Lutheran Church of Denmark in 1900 and has since been abandoned.
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