Aukarnersuaq Island (old spelling: ''Aukarnerssuaq'') is an uninhabited

island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...

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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Geography

Aukernersuaq Island is located in

Tasiusaq Bay Tasiusaq Bay (Danish language, Danish: ''Vakkerprydsbugt'') is a bay in the Upernavik Archipelago in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is an indentation of northeastern Baffin Bay. The name of the bay derives from the na ...

, 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 ...

, on the shores of Qaaneq fjord, the innermost reaches of Kangerlussuaq Icefjord. In the north, Kangerlussuaq Icefjord separates the island from ''Kakiffait Sermiat'', the southern tongue of

Giesecke Glacier Giesecke Glacier () is a glacier in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Its outflow is split in the center by a nunatak. Through two tongues it drains the Greenland ice sheet The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which form ...

on the mainland of Greenland.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 The innermost waterways of Tasiusaq Bay separate Aukarnersuaq from the Nunatarsuaq

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit language, Inuit ) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They often form natural pyramidal peaks. Isolated nunataks are also cal ...

on the mainland in the southeast, from Qaqaarissorsuaq Island in the southwest, and

Anarusuk Island Anarusuk Island is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography Anarusuk Island is located in Tasiusaq Bay, in the north-central part of Upernavik Archipelago, on the shores of the inner reaches of Kang ...

in the northwest. The highest point on Aukarnersuaq Island is a , unnamed peak in the southern part of the island.

References

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