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Anoritooq (old spelling: ''Anoritôq'') is a nunatak ( kl, nunataq) in
Avannaata Avannaata (, da, Det Nordlige, lit=The Northern) 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 I ...
municipality in northwestern
Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is ...
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Geography

Anoritooq is located on the mainland of Greenland in the northern 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 ...
. To the north, Greenland icesheet drains into Sugar Loaf Bay via Cornell Glacier separating it from the base of
Nuussuaq Peninsula Nuussuaq Peninsula (, old spelling: ''Nûgssuaq'') is a large (180x48 km) 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, ...
.''Upernavik Avannarleq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 The nunatak has several summits, with the highest reaching . Due to the glacial retreat, another nunatak, Orsugissap Qaqqarsua, culminating in an summit, is now conjoint with Anoritooq.


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Nunataks of Greenland Sugar Loaf Bay Upernavik Archipelago {{Greenland-mountain-stub