Ivittuut
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This article is about the mining town. For the former U.S. Army post and Naval base, see Bluie West Seven. For the former Royal Danish Navy base, see Gronnedal.
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.
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Ivittuut | |
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Coordinates: 61°12′30″N 48°10′10″W | |
State | Kingdom of Denmark |
Constituent country | Greenland |
Municipality | Sermersooq |
Abandoned | 1980s |
Time zone | UTC-03 |
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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.