Ivittuut
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Ivittuut (formerly, Ivigtût; Greenlandic for "Grassy Place") is an abandoned mining town near Cape Desolation in southwestern Greenland, in the modern Sermersooq municipality on the ruins of the former Norse Middle Settlement.
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Ivittuut is referenced by 164 other articles, and connects out to World War II, Danish Realm and administrative territorial entity of Greenland.
The entry is geolocated on the map in GL, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Former populated places in Greenland, Geological type localities and Ghost towns in Greenland.
Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ivittuut
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Cryolite_mine_ivgtut_greenland.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- The cryolite mine in Ivittuut in the summer of 1940
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituent country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- 22px Sermersooq
- Settlement.extinct_title
- Abandoned
- Settlement.extinct_date
- 1980s
- Settlement.timezone
- UTC-03
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mine
- Official name
- Ivittuut
- Country
- Greenland
- Located in
- Sermersooq
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 600
- Capital of
- Ivittuut Municipality
- Image
- Cryolite mine ivgtut greenland.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Ivittuut
- product or material produced
- cryolite
- native label
- Ivittuut
- inception
- 1951-00-00
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Climate
- Transport
- See also
- References
Ivittuut (formerly, Ivigtût; Greenlandic for "Grassy Place") is an abandoned mining town near Cape Desolation in southwestern Greenland, in the modern Sermersooq municipality on the ruins of the former Norse Middle Settlement.
Ivittuut is one of the few places in the world so far discovered to have naturally occurring cryolite (Na3AlF6, sodium aluminum fluoride), an important agent in modern aluminum extraction.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ivittuut” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (2)
On the map
2 mapped locations