Uunarteq
Sign in to saveUunarteq, formerly Kap Tobin and Unarteg, is an abandoned settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland, located south of Ittoqqortoormiit.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Uunarteq
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- Kap_tobin_2024.jpg
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- The abandoned village of Uunarteq
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- Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
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- Location within Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
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- Constituent country
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- Municipality
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- 22px Sermersooq
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1926
- Settlement.extinct_title
- Abandoned
- Settlement.extinct_date
- 1980s
- Settlement.timezone
- UTC-01
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Uunarteq, formerly Kap Tobin and Unarteg, is an abandoned settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland, located south of Ittoqqortoormiit.
== History == The settlement was founded by fishermen and their families in 1926. In 1947 a telegraph and weather station were erected; the station itself employed roughly 20 people. At its largest extent, the settlement was home for approximately 120 people, with its own grade school. The village housed a seismic station until 1960, when it was closed down. Uunarteq was abandoned as a settlement in the mid-1980s, when the local weather station was closed. Today the remaining buildings serve as cottages for the inhabitants of nearby Ittoqqortoormiit. The last family left the settlement in 2004.