Kangeq

• Name — Kangeq • Other Name — Håbets Ø • Subdivision Type — State • Subdivision Name — Kingdom of Denmark • Subdivision Type1 — Constituent country • Subdivision Name1 — Greenland • Subdivision Type2 — Municipality • Subdivision Name2 — Sermersooq • Established Title — First settled • Established Date — before 1000 CE • Extinct Title — Abandoned • Extinct Date — 1973 • Time Zone — UTC-03

• Illustration — A map of Haabets Ø and Baal's River by Hans Egede. As a coastal settlement, Kangeq was positioned along the migration route of the ancient Inuit peoples. Archeological finds from the Dorset culture era have been found near Kangeq. The Dorset people had vanished from the Nuuk region prior to 1000 CE. The island of Kangeq, dubbed Håbets Ø ("Island of Hope"), formed the site of Hans Egede's first settlement in Greenland after his landing on 3 July 1721. The settlement was relocated to the mainland by Major Claus Paarss in 1728. • Illustration — Tupilak, woman and man by Aron of Kangeq. In the mid-19th century, it was also home to the artist Aron of Kangeq (1822–1869), a Greenlandic Inuk hunter, painter, and oral historian. In 1854, Kangeq became an official trading station, and an official residence was built for the assistant representing the Royal Greenland Trade Department. Today the ruins of Kangeq are sometimes visited by historically oriented tourists. In 2009, the old houses of Kangeq were used as a backdrop for the Eksperimentet film, with the settlement emulating the look of Nuuk in 1952.

Kangeq was located in an island at the mouth of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord, on the coast of the Labrador Sea, approximately 18 km west-south-west of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.

• Aron of Kangeq (1822–1869), painter and oral historian