Anorituup Kangerlua, also known as Anoritoq or Anortek Fjord, is a

fjord In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Icela ...

King Frederick VI Coast King Frederick VI Coast ( da, Kong Frederik VI Kyst) is a major geographic division of Greenland. It comprises the coastal area of Southeastern Greenland in Sermersooq and Kujalleq municipalities fronting the Irminger Sea of the North Atlantic O ...

, southern

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Geography

This fjord marks the border between the

Sermersooq Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital ...

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to the north and the

Kujalleq Kujalleq ( Greenlandic: , da, Den Syden, lit=The South) is a municipality on the southern tip of Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The administrative center of the municipality is in Qaqortoq (formerly called Julianehåb). Creation ...

municipality to the south in the eastern coast of Greenland. Anorituup Kangerlua extends in a roughly E/W direction for about 50 km between Napasorsuaq Fjord to the north and

Avaqqat Kangerluat Avaqqat Kangerluat, also known as ''Avarqqat Kangerluat'', ''Avaqqat Kangerlua'' and ''Puiagtoq Fjord'', is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland. History This fjord was referred to as "Auarket" by Lieute ...

Fjord to the south.

Kangikitsua Anorituup Kangerlua, also known as Anoritoq or Anortek Fjord, is a fjord in King Frederick VI Coast, southern Greenland. Geography This fjord marks the border between the Sermersooq municipality to the north and the Kujalleq municipality to th ...

is a tributary fjord branching on the southern shore within the fjord. To the east Anorituup Kangerlua opens into the

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. The Qulleq group of coastal islands lies to the northeast of the northern end of its mouth. The Akia Peninsula is at the southern end of its mouth and the Anorituup Qeqertag islet cluster at its northern end. Off the southern side of the entrance is Isortoq Bay, with

Nuuk Point Nuuk (; da, Nuuk, formerly ) is the capital and largest city of Greenland, a constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark. Nuuk is the seat of government and the country's largest cultural and economic centre. The major cities from other cou ...

at its eastern end.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 101 There are a number of large

glacier A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such a ...

s at his head.

Mountains

A high

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rises steeply from the shore on the northern side of the fjord at ;

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is a high rocky

pyramidal peak A pyramidal peak, sometimes called a glacial horn in extreme cases, is an angular, sharply pointed mountain peak which results from the cirque erosion due to multiple glaciers diverging from a central point. Pyramidal peaks are often examples o ...

rising a little further north above the glacier entering the confluence at the head of the fjord from the east at .

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Den grønlandske Lods - Sejladsanvisninger ØstgrønlandNew insights on the north-eastern part of the Ketilidian orogen in South-East Greenland
Fjords of Greenland {{Greenland-fjord-stub

Geography

Mountains

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