North Greenland

The Northern Inspectorate of Greenland, also known as North Greenland, was a Danish inspectorate on Greenland consisting of the trading centres and missionary stations along the northwest coast of the vast island.

History

West Greenland was divided into the Northern Inspectorate and the Southern Inspectorate from 1782. The boundary between the two ran at around 68°N latitude. The Northern Inspectorate's southernmost town was Egedesminde, now Aasiaat, north of Holstensborg, now Sisimiut, which was the northernmost town of South Greenland. The Northern Inspectorate extended northwards up to and including Upernavik, or, according to Bell, to 78°N to enclose Thule. The capital was at Godhavn.
In 1911, as the administration of the colony was removed from the Royal Greenland Trading Department and folded into the Danish Ministry of the Interior, a provincial council was established. It was elected indirectly from the local councils and had little say in the management of the colony.
North Greenland and South Greenland were merged as the Colony of Greenland in 1950, with the administration centralised at Godthåb, formerly South Greenland's capital.