Annoatok

Annoatok is located in Greenland
Annoatok
Annoatok
Location within Greenland

Annoatok or Anoritooq, located at 78°31′28.2″N 72°24′10.8″W / 78.524500°N 72.403000°W / 78.524500; -72.403000, was a small hunting station in Greenland on Smith Sound about 24 km (15 mi) north of Etah. It is now abandoned.

History

Annoatok was used as a base by Frederick Cook during his Arctic expedition of 1908–09, when he claimed to have reached the North Pole. The name Annoatok means "the wind-loved place". According to a publication in 1997, it was the most northerly inhabited place on Earth at that time. However, excavations carried out by Erik Holtved in Inuarfissuaq at 78.9° N in central Inglefield Land proved human settlement further north. Excavations during the years 2004 to 2005 gave evidence of an ancient settlement about 30 km further north in Qaqaitsut at 79.2° N in eastern Inglefield Land. The settlement was briefly re-occupied by at least four families in the mid-1980s.

References

  1. ↑ The first conqueror of the North Pole: Cook, Peary, or neither? by Jacques L Theodor
  2. ↑ Henderson, B. (2005) True North W W Norton ISBN 0-393-32738-8
  3. ↑ Bryce (1997), p.306
  4. ↑ Bryce, R.M. (1997) Cook & Peary: the Polar Controversy Resolved ISBN 0-8117-0317-7, p.303
  5. ↑ Darwent, John et al.: Archaeological Survey of Eastern Inglefield Land, Northwestern Greenland, in: ARCTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 51–86, 2007, p. 52
  6. ↑ LeMoine, Genevieve; Darwent, Christyann M. (2010). "The Inglefield Land Archaeology Project: Introduction and Overview". Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography. 110 (2): 279. doi:10.1080/00167223.2010.10669512. ISSN 0016-7223.

78°31′28.2″N 72°24′10.8″W / 78.524500°N 72.403000°W / 78.524500; -72.403000