Ivittuut
Also known as Ivigtut, Ivigtût
Ivittuut (formerly, Ivigtût; Greenlandic for "Grassy Place") 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.
Key facts
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- Ivittuut
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- Cryolite_mine_ivgtut_greenland.jpg
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- 300px
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- The cryolite mine in Ivittuut in the summer of 1940
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- Greenland
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- left
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- Location within Greenland
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- 300
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- State
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- Constituent country
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- Municipality
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- 22px Sermersooq
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Ivittuut (formerly, Ivigtût; Greenlandic for "Grassy Place") 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.
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