Egger Island (; , old spelling: ''Itivdleq'')
is
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...
's southernmost island. It is located in the
Kujalleq
Kujalleq (Greenlandic language, Greenlandic: , ) 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
The munic ...
municipality and is uninhabited.
Geography
Egger Island is an important landmark for a small islet off
Cape Farewell, its southern headland, is the southernmost point of Greenland. It is part of the
Cape Farewell Archipelago (Nunap Isua).
The island has a deeply indented coastline and is separated from the neighbouring islands of the archipelago by narrow sounds.
Qunnerit lies to the west,
Sammisoq to the north and the smaller
Avatdlerssuaq and
Saningassoq to the east. Egger Island has an area of 308.8 km
2 and a shoreline of 150.2 kilometres.
lies at the island's southernmost tip, with a height of over 2000 feet; it is noted for bad weather.
See also
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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 ...
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List of countries by southernmost point
References
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Kujalleq
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