Ivittuut Municipality

Ivittuut
Municipality
The cryolite mine Ivigtut, Greenland, summer 1940
Country	Kingdom of Denmark
Province	Greenland
County	Kitaa
Area
• Total	100 km2 (40 sq mi)

Ivittuut, (old spelling Ivigtût) was a municipality (from 1951 until 2008), located on the coast of Arsuk fjord in southern Greenland. With an area of just 100 km² (600 km² according to other sources), it was the smallest municipality of Greenland, bordering on the former Narsaq municipality in the north, east, and south, and on the west by the Labrador Sea. It has been integrated into the new Sermersooq municipality. Due its small size, the land of the municipality is all ice free, as it does not extend inward to the ice sheet of Greenland.

The town of Ivittuut is abandoned, and the only settlement of the municipality is the naval base Kangilinnguit (Grønnedal) which is to stay. The municipality only existed de jure and was about to be absorbed by Narsaq when the 2009 municipal reform took place.

Kangilinnguit is the Danish naval headquarters of Greenland. The base was originally established to protect the important cryolite mine of Ivittuut.

Climate

Climate data for Ivittuut
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	−4 (24)	−3 (26)	−1 (31)	3 (38)	8 (47)	12 (54)	14 (57)	13 (55)	8 (47)	4 (40)	0 (32)	−3 (27)	4 (40)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	−11 (12)	−11 (12)	−9 (16)	−4 (24)	1 (33)	4 (39)	6 (42)	5 (41)	2 (36)	−2 (29)	−6 (22)	−9 (16)	−3 (27)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	84 (3.3)	66 (2.6)	86 (3.4)	64 (2.5)	89 (3.5)	81 (3.2)	79 (3.1)	94 (3.7)	150 (5.9)	140 (5.7)	120 (4.6)	79 (3.1)	1,130 (44.6)
Source: Weatherbase

External links

• www.arsukfjorden.gl Local web site with maps and other information.