At the end of the year, he turned north and helped establish a whaling station on Nipisat Island.
In 1989, Finn Kramer, curator of the museum, discovered the Nipisat Saqqaq culture site and was in charge of its evacuation during the next five years.
"' Nipisat Island "'( Lumpfish ", referring to the island's shape ) is a small, uninhabited island in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland.
Several smaller islands trail Sarfannguit Island in the west, on the coastline of Davis Strait, of which Maniitsorsuaq and Uummannaarsussuaq are the largest, while tiny Nipisat Island is host to ruins from the early settlement.