This article is about the mining town. For the former U.S. Army post and Naval base, see Bluie West Seven. For the former Royal Danish Navy base, see Gronnedal.
Ivittuut (formerly, Ivigtût) (Kalaallisut: "Grassy Place"[1]) 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.
^Sermersooq Municipality Archived July 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
Ivittuut (formerly, Ivigtût) (Kalaallisut: "Grassy Place") is an abandoned mining town near Cape Desolation in southwestern Greenland, in the modern Sermersooq...
hexafluoroaluminate) is an uncommon mineral identified with the once-large deposit at Ivittuut on the west coast of Greenland, mined commercially until 1987. It is used...
from the United States and Canada by selling cryolite from the mine at Ivittuut. The major air bases were Bluie West-1 at Narsarsuaq and Bluie West-8 at...
Ivittuut Greenlandic pronunciation: [ivitːuːt], (old spelling Ivigtût) was a municipality (from 1951 until 2008), on the coast of Arsuk Fjord in southern...
(in geographical order, from south to north): Nanortalik Qaqortoq Narsaq Ivittuut Paamiut Nuuk Maniitsoq Sisimiut Kangaatsiaq Aasiaat Qasigiannguit Ilulissat...
in Greenland. There is a 4.5 km long asphalt road between the towns of Ivittuut and Kangilinnguit. Speed limit ranges from 50 kilometres per hour (31 mph)...
Republic 43.0 °C (109.4 °F) Mao 31 August 1954 Greenland 30.1 °C (86.2 °F) Ivittuut 23 June 1915 Guatemala 45.0 °C (113.0 °F) Estanzuela, Zacapa 12 May 1998...
Øresund, a Danish mining company involved with the cryolite operations at Ivittuut to provide transport and logistics for four American radar bases in Greenland...
the area permanently settled since then. The discovery of cryolite in Ivittuut in the inner parts of Arsuk Fjord attracted the interest of the Danes during...
History of Greenland Norse colonization of the Americas Western Settlement Ivittuut, the site of a smaller "Middle Settlement" Danish colonization of the Americas...
aluminium from bauxites; however, as the only significant occurrence at Ivittuut, Greenland, in a granitic pegmatite, was depleted, synthetic cryolite can...
(Scoresbysund) Itterajivit (Illukasiit/Kap Hope, population 9 as of 2005) Ivittuut (former main centre, now abandoned) Kangilinnguit (Grønnedal) Qaanaaq (Thule)...
Qaqortoq 66 XX XX Narsaq 68 XX XX Paamiut Sermersooq (south-west) 69 1X XX Ivittuut (Kangilinnguit) 8x 81 XX XX Maniitsoq Qeqqata 84 XX XX Kangerlussuaq 85...
economic activity in South Greenland in the past, especially the nearby Ivittuut mine north of Qaqortoq. A gold mine was operating from 2003 to 2013 in...
6 °F) 29 May 2012 Narsarsuaq, Kujalleq June 30.1 °C (86.2 °F) 23 June 1915 Ivittuut, Sermersooq July 26.3 °C (79.3 °F) 6 July 2008 Nuuk, Sermersooq August...
23333°N 48.09861°W / 61.23333; -48.09861 (Bluie West 7) to defend the Ivittuut cryolite mine Bluie West Eight: Sondrestrom Air Base at 67°00′38″N 50°42′33″W...
early 15th century. Norse settlements in Greenland Eastern Settlement Ivittuut, the site of a smaller "Middle Settlement" Danish colonization of Greenland...
Iceland: Hornafjörður and Reykjavík Greenland: Fredricksdal and Ivigtut (Ivittuut) Newfoundland and Labrador: Icy Tickle and Hawkes Bay Canada: Pictou Harbor...
6 °F) 29 May 2012 Narsarsuaq, Kujalleq June 30.1 °C (86.2 °F) 23 June 1915 Ivittuut, Sermersooq July 26.3 °C (79.3 °F) 6 July 2008 Nuuk, Sermersooq August...
the two settlements there were still a few scattered farms (near today's Ivittuut), which are summarized in some publications as a "middle settlement". In...
possibility of Axis military bases on Greenland. The cryolite mine at Ivittuut was a strategically important source of flux for electrolysis of aluminum...
2024. "Order No. 11 on the preservation of the inner part of Ikka Fjord, Ivittuut Municipality. | UNEP Law and Environment Assistance Platform". leap.unep...
of Greenland Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tunulliarfik Fjord. Ivittuut/Narsarsuaq/Qaqortoq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 Prostar Sailing Directions...
protect the highly strategic cryolite quarry in the former settlement of Ivittuut. The U.S. Navy turned the base over to the Danish Navy in August 1951....
mineralogist Pauly in the Ikka Fjord in southwest Greenland, close to Ivittuut, the locality of the famous cryolite deposit. Here ikaite occurs in truly...
west-north-west of Cape Thorvaldsen near the modern settlements of Arsuk and Ivittuut. The cape is in an impressive stack of jagged cliffs with the reddish crags...
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 2021-07-30. Ivittuut/Narsarsuaq/Qaqortoq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 "Metal Traveller in Igaliku"...
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