{{Infobox settlement |name = Narsarmijit |other_name = Frederiksthal<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sabine |first1=Edward |title=Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism. No. XIII |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |date=1872 |volume=162 |pages=353–433 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/109136 |issn=0261-0523}}</ref> |settlement_type = Settlement |image_skyline = Narsarmijit.jpg |imagesize = 300 |image_caption = View of the settlement |image_shield = |shield_size = |pushpin_map = Greenland |pushpin_label_position = |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Greenland |pushpin_relief = yes |pushpin_mapsize = 300 | subdivision_type = State | subdivision_name = {{Flag|Kingdom of Denmark}} | subdivision_type1 = Constituent country | subdivision_name1 = {{Flag|Greenland}} | subdivision_type2 = Municipality | subdivision_name2 = 22px Kujalleq | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = |government_footnotes = <ref name="muni">[http://kujalleq.gl/dansk/by/10-9.htm Kujalleq Municipality] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721032203/http://kujalleq.gl/dansk/by/10-9.htm |date=2011-07-21 }} {{in lang|da}}</ref> |leader_title = Mayor |leader_name = Augo Simonsen |established_title = |established_date = |population_as_of = 2025 |population_total = 55 | timezone1 = WGT | utc_offset1 = −02:00 | timezone1_DST = WGST | utc_offset1_DST = −01:00 |coordinates = {{coord|60|00|17|N|44|39|55|W|region:GL|display=inline,title}} |postal_code_type = Postal code |postal_code = 3922 Nanortalik |website = }}

'''Narsarmijit''',<ref>The name is from the local dialect of Greenlandic. The standard Kalaallisut name '''Narsaq Kujalleq''' was used briefly. Their pre-1973 spellings were '''Narsamiit''' and '''Narssak Kujatdlek''' or '''Narsak'''. In both dialects, the name means "Dwellers from the Plains".</ref><ref>Jensen, Einar Lund & al. ''Monographs on Greenland: Man & Society: [https://books.google.com/books?id=6fDNbZ7i33YC&pg=PA292 Cultural Encounters at Cape Farewell: The East Greenland Immigrants and the German Moravian Mission in the 19th Century]''. Museum Tusculanum Press, 2011. {{ISBN|87-635-3165-8}}.</ref> formerly '''Narsaq Kujalleq''' and '''Frederiksdal''' (Anglicised: '''Frederiksthal'''), is a settlement in southern Greenland. It is located in the Kujalleq municipality near Cape Thorvaldsen. Its population was 62 in 2024.<ref name="population">{{cite web|title = Population by place of birth, locality and time (primo)|url = https://bank.stat.gl/pxweb/en/Greenland/Greenland__BE__BE85/BEXSTK4.px/table/tableViewLayout1//?rxid=27d6ab46-03f8-43bd-868c-24a2a5a0a8e0|publisher = Statistics Greenland|access-date = 11 January 2025}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> There has been a slow but steady pattern of emigration since the late 1950s.

== Geography == Narsarmijit is the southernmost settlement in the country, located approximately {{convert|50|km|sp=us}} north of Cape Farewell, the southern cape of Greenland.<ref>O'Carroll, Etain & al. ''Greenland and the Arctic''. Lonely Planet, 2005. {{ISBN|1-74059-095-3}}.</ref>

== History == The city is located in the area of the easternmost of the Norse settlements during their colonization of Greenland.<ref>Fiske, John. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=VWCVysLuNhsC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77 The Discovery of America]'', Vol. 1. Echo Library, 2009. {{ISBN|1-4068-2929-3}}.</ref> The former village of Ikigait is roughly {{convert|3|km|sp=us}} away and was the site of Herjólfr Bárðarson's farm '''Herjolfsnes''' ("Herjolf's Point"<ref>Scott, Brian M. [http://my.stratos.net/~bmscott/Landnamabok_Place-Names.html Place-Names in the ''Landnámabók''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324204317/http://my.stratos.net/~bmscott/Landnamabok_Place-Names.html |date=2012-03-24 }}". Accessed 28 Apr 2012.</ref>).

The Moravian missionary Conrad Kleinschmidt (1768&ndash;1832)<ref name="BibNar">Del, Anden. "[http://www.ilisimatusarfik.gl/Portals/0/Ekstern/Generelt/Dokumenter/Gr%C3%B8nland%20som%20del%20af%20den%20bibelske%20fort%C3%A6lling%20-%20Ph.d.-afhandling.pdf ''Grønland som del af den bibelske fortælling – en 1700-tals studie''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715044721/http://www.ilisimatusarfik.gl/Portals/0/Ekstern/Generelt/Dokumenter/Gr%C3%B8nland%20som%20del%20af%20den%20bibelske%20fort%C3%A6lling%20-%20Ph.d.-afhandling.pdf |date=2012-07-15 }}" ["Greenland as Part of the Biblical Narrative &ndash; a Study of the 18th-Century"]. {{in lang|da}}</ref> founded the station of '''Friedrichsthal''' ({{langx|da|Frederiksdal}}, <small>lit.</small> "Frederick's Valley") in 1824. The name honored Frederick VI of Denmark. The station was the Moravian's fourth, after Neu-Herrnhut (1733), Lichtenfels (1748), and Lichtenau (1774) and before Umanak (1861) and Idlorpait (1864). All the Greenland missions were surrendered to the Lutheran church in 1900.<ref>Lüdecke, Cornelia. "[http://www.meteohistory.org/2005historyofmeteorology2/09luedecke.pdf East Meets West: Meteorological observations of the Moravians in Greenland and Labrador since the 18th century] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181730/http://www.meteohistory.org/2005historyofmeteorology2/09luedecke.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }}". ''History of Meteorology'' 2 (2005). Accessed 27 Apr 2012.</ref> In the 19th century, the area served as a prime territory for sealing.<ref>Kent, Kane Elisha. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=trz7HWAGjR0C&pg=PA21 Arctic Explorations]''.</ref> Members of the settlement rescued the survivors of the ill-fated German polar expedition's ''Hansa'' in 1870.<ref>"[http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic43-1-83.pdf The 1869/70 German North Polar Expedition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303215319/http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic43-1-83.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }}".</ref> In 1906, pastor Jens Chemnitz founded Greenland's first sheep farm in Narsarmijit; the industry has since moved north to the larger pastures around Narsaq.

Until 31 December 2008 the settlement belonged to the Nanortalik municipality. Since the administrative reform enacted on 1 January 2009 the settlement has been part of Kujalleq.

== Transport == {{main article|Narsaq Kujalleq Heliport}} The village is served by the Narsarmijit Heliport. Air Greenland district helicopters link the settlement with Nanortalik, and further to Qaqortoq and Narsarsuaq.<ref name="gl">{{cite web |url=http://book.airgreenland.com/ |publisher=Air Greenland |title=Booking system |access-date=6 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100422211033/http://book.airgreenland.com/ |archive-date=22 April 2010 }}</ref>

== Population == Most towns and settlements in southern Greenland exhibit negative growth patterns over the last two decades, with many settlements rapidly depopulating. The population of Narsarmijit has decreased nearly a half relative to the 1990 levels, by nearly a quarter relative to the 2000 levels.<ref name="statbank">[http://bank2.stat.gl/ Statistics Greenland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812052835/http://bank2.stat.gl/ |date=2011-08-12 }}</ref>

{{wide image|Narsarmijit-population-dynamics.png|1000px|alt=Narsarmijit population dynamics|Narsarmijit population growth dynamics in the last two decades. ''Source: Statistics Greenland''<ref name="statbank"/>}}

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Category:Populated places in Greenland Category:History of the Greenland work of the Moravian Church Category:Populated places established in 1824 Category:Kujalleq