Akunnaat (older spelling: Akúnât) is a former community in southern
Greenland on the island of Akonemiok[1] or Qeqertarsuatsiaat,[2][3] 3 miles (4.8 km) from the trading post of Fisher's Inlet (
Danish: Fiskernæsset, the modern settlement of
Qeqertarsuatsiaat).
The settlement was founded as the
Moravian mission of Lichtenfels (variously translated from the
German as "Light Rock",[1] "Light of the Rock",[4] or "Rock of Light"[5]) by
Matthias Stach, the brothers
Jens and
Peter Haven,[6] and four
Inuit families in 1748,[7] 1754,[1] 1757,[6] or 1758.[8] Following the first conversions in 1760[8] or 1761,[6] the population of the settlement rose to around 300.[8] The mission was surrendered to the Lutheran
Church of Denmark in 1900.[9]