Kangeq
Sign in to saveKangeq or Kangek (Kalaallisut: "Promontory") is a former settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. It is located on the same island that formed the first Danish-Norwegian colony on Greenland between 1721 and 1728.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kangeq
- Settlement.other_name
- Håbets Ø
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kangeq 1890.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Kangeq, ca. 1890
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Greenland
- 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.established_title
- First settled
- Settlement.established_date
- before 1000 CE
- Settlement.extinct_title
- Abandoned
- Settlement.extinct_date
- 1973
- Settlement.timezone
- UTC-03
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Kangeq or Kangek (Kalaallisut: "Promontory") is a former settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. It is located on the same island that formed the first Danish-Norwegian colony on Greenland between 1721 and 1728.
== History == thumb|200px|left|A map of Haabets Ø and Baal's River by Hans Egede. As a coastal settlement, Kangeq was positioned along the migration route of the ancient Inuit peoples. Archeological finds from the Dorset culture era have been found near Kangeq. The Dorset people had vanished from the Nuuk region prior to 1000 CE.