Saattoq is a former settlement in the Qaasuitsup

Qaasuitsup

Qaasuitsup is a new municipality in Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. As of January 2010 its population is 17,749. The administrative center of the municipality is in Ilulissat...

 municipality in northwestern Greenland

Greenland

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

. It was located in the north-central part of Upernavik Archipelago

Upernavik Archipelago

Upernavik Archipelago is a vast archipelago of small islands in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland, on the coast of northeastern Baffin Bay...

, in Tasiusaq Bay

Tasiusaq Bay

Tasiusaq Bay is a bay in the Upernavik Archipelago in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is an indentiation of northeastern Baffin Bay...

, straddling Saattorsuaq Island

Saattorsuaq Island

Saattorsuaq Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- History :...

, and the nearby Saattoq skerry

Skerry

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History

Saattoq was populated in 1881. It was a very small village of fewer than 10 people at any time. It was abandoned in 1957, during the post-war

World War II

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 consolidation phase in northwestern Greenland, with the survuving population moving to nearby Nutaarmiut

Nutaarmiut

Nutaarmiut is an island settlement in the Qaasuitsup municipality, in northwestern Greenland. It had 36 inhabitants in 2010.- Upernavik Archipelago :...

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