Akia Island () is an

uninhabited island An uninhabited island, desert island, or deserted island, is an island, islet or atoll which lacks permanent human population. Uninhabited islands are often depicted in films or stories about shipwrecked people, and are also used as stereotypes ...

Avannaata Avannaata (, ) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality. It encompasses an area of 522,700 km2 and has 10,726 inhabitants. Geography In the south, Avannaata is flanked ...

municipality in northwestern

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. The name of the island means "''turned on its side''" in the

Greenlandic language Greenlandic, also known by its Endonym and exonym, endonym Kalaallisut (, ), is an Inuit languages, Inuit language belonging to the Eskaleut languages#Internal classification, Eskimoan branch of the Eskaleut languages, Eskaleut language family. ...

Geography

Akia Island is located in the outer belt of islands in the

Upernavik Archipelago Upernavik Archipelago is a vast coastal archipelago in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, off the shores of northeastern Baffin Bay. The archipelago extends from the northwestern coast of Sigguup Nunaa peninsula in the south at ...

, in the group between the Upernavik Icefjord in the north, and Nunavik Peninsula in the south, approximately to the southeast of Upernavik Island, on the other side of a small waterway separating the islands.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 In the east and south, another small waterway separates Akia from a larger Qaarsorsuaq Island. In the west, several small

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such as ''Avannarleq'' (), ''Qeqertasussuk'' (), and ''Aorrussaq'' () buffer the western coast from the open waters of

Baffin Bay Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: ''Saknirutiak Imanga''; ; ; ), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is sometimes considered a s ...

. Pear-shaped and hilly, the island culminates in an unnamed peak in the central-northern part of the island. There are many small ponds and lakes in the interior of the island.

Promontories

References

{{Upernavik Archipelago Uninhabited islands of Greenland Islands of the Upernavik Archipelago