Amitsorsuaq Island is a small, uninhabited
island
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in
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
Greenland
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.
Geography
Amitsorsuaq Island is located in the north-central part of
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
Kangerlussuaq Icefjord in the south, and
Nuussuaq Peninsula
Nuussuaq Peninsula (, old spelling: ''Nûgssuaq'') is a large () peninsula in western Greenland.
Geography
The waters around the peninsula are that of Baffin Bay. To the south and southwest the peninsula is bounded by Disko Bay, an inlet ...
in the north.
[''Upernavik Avannarleq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992]
Together with its sibling
Nasaussaq Island, Amitsorsuaq Island separates
Nasaussap Saqqaa in the south from the inner parts of
Sugar Loaf Bay in the north. It is separated from an unnamed
nunatak
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on the mainland of Greenland by the narrow and short ''Amitsorsuup Sullua'' strait. the
Ussing Glacier drains the
Greenland ice sheet
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immediately to the east of the southeastern cape of the island. The island is separated from Nasaussaq Island in the west by the small ''Ikerasakassak'' strait.
The highest point on the island is an unnamed, peak in the western part.
See also
*
List of islands of Greenland
The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many of these islands have both a Kalaallisut language name and a Indo-European languages, European language name.
Islands and archipelagoes
*Aaluik
*Aasiaat
*Achton Friis Is ...
References
{{Upernavik Archipelago
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Sugar Loaf Bay
Islands of the Upernavik Archipelago