Annoatok

Annoatok (or Anoritooq ), located at 78.33 degrees north and 72.30 degrees west, was a small Inuit village in northwestern Greenland, on Smith Sound, about 24 kilometers north of Etah in the northwest of Hayes Peninsula. Annoatok was abandoned in the 20th century as a settlement, it was by then one of the northernmost settlements in the world after natural Inuarfissuaq approximately 80 kilometers east-northeast ( 78.9 ° N) and Qaqaitsut more about 50km northeast to 79.2 ° N, both also in the North Greenlandic region Inglefield land.

History

Frederick Cook Annoatok used as the basis of his polar expedition 1908/ 09, after which he claimed to have reached the North Pole. The name Annoatok means " wind- beloved place ".