Ivituut

Ivituut lies among the fjords of southwestern Greenland, in the district known as the Norse Middle Settlement. About twenty Norse farms stood here between the larger Eastern and Western Settlements. Archaeological investigation has found evidence of occupation after 985 and continuing at least into the fourteenth century, although no written records of the inhabitants survive. In 1799 a deposit of cryolite was discovered at Ivituut, one of the few places where this unusual mineral occurs naturally.