It is about 13 kilometers from Ammassivik (Sletten), located on the opposite side of the same fjord.
It was founded as Lichtenau (German: "Light Meadow"[1]) by the Moravian missionary Gotfried Grillich and five families[2] in 1774.
[3] For a time, it was the largest permanent settlement in Greenland.
[4] The site has a large graveyard and was used as a children's home for the Gertrud Rask Institute between 1942 and 1980.
One houses the largest waterfall in Greenland, Qorlortorsuaq, and a trout farm.