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Ivittuut
Ivittuut | |
|---|---|
 The cryolite mine in Ivittuut in 1940 | |
  Ivittuut Location within Greenland | |
| Coordinates: 61°12′30″N 48°10′10″W / 61.20833°N 48.16944°W | |
| State |  Kingdom of Denmark |
| Constituent country |  Greenland |
| Municipality |  Sermersooq |
| Abandoned | 1980s |
| Time zone | UTC-03 |
Ivittuut (formerly, Ivigtût) (Kalaallisut: "Grassy Place"[1]) 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.
- ^ Sermersooq Municipality Archived July 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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