Tunu

Tunu / Østgrønland ( East Greenland ) was from 1940 to 2009 one of the three counties ( amt ) of Greenland. The administrative headquarters was located in the main settlement, Tasiilaq. In 2005, the population stood at 3,800.

Tunu called in German translates as " the back of the country".

The district consisted of two communities, Ammassalik and Illoqqortoormiut in the south, as well as a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park (municipality free area ), which occupied the northern half of the district.

In the east it bordered on the Greenland Sea, the Norwegian Sea, the Denmark Strait and the North Atlantic. To the west of the district Kitaa lay, and in the north of the district Avanersuaq.

In June 1931 the occupied Norwegian fishing with the approval of their government in Oslo the east coast of Greenland. On July 12, 1931, the official proclamation of the Norwegian territory Eirik Raudes country followed. A year later, in July 1932, following the proclamation of the territory Fridtjof Nansen country on the southern east coast. Taking possession of the East Greenland territories was justified that Denmark had opened only West Greenland during the past centuries, colonized and effectively controlled and therefore can only make claims on the western part of the island claimed. A division of the island threatened by a Hague arbitration to Norway in 1933 but pulled back.

With effect 1 January 2009 the former municipalities and districts by the four major municipalities Qeqqata Press Office, Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq, Qaasuitsup Press Office and Municipality Kujalleq resulted in the replacement of a more comprehensive eden administrative reform.