Ivittuut Municipality

Ivittuut
Municipality
The cryolite mine Ivigtut, Greenland, summer 1940
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 61°11′37″N 48°09′23″W
Country	Kingdom of Denmark
Province	Greenland
County	Kitaa
Area
• Total	100 km2 (40 sq mi)

Ivittuut Greenlandic pronunciation: [ivitːuːt], (old spelling Ivigtût) was a municipality (from 1951 until 2008), 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 to its small size, 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 permanent naval base Kangilinnguit (Grønnedal). The municipality 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, originally established to protect Ivittuut's cryolite mine.

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 Archived 2016-04-30 at the Wayback Machine Local web site with maps and other information.