Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula () is a

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in the

King Frederick VI Coast King Frederick VI Coast () 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 Ocean. It is bordered by King ...

, southeastern

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. It is a part of the

Sermersooq Sermersooq () is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five previous, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital of Greenland, and it is the most populous ...

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Geography

The Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula is limited to the northeast by a strait across which lie the Søren Norby Islands, beyond which lies the bay of Pikiulleq. To the southeast it is bound by the

Irminger Sea The Irminger Sea is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered to the west by southern Greenland, to the north by Iceland and the Denmark Strait, to the east by the Reykjanes Ridge (a northern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge), ...

and to the southwest by

Umivik Bay Umivik Bay (), also known as ''Umiivik'' and ''Umerik'', is a bay in King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipalities of Greenland, municipality. Unlike the jagged and forbidding appearance of most f ...

, with two large islands,

Upernattivik Upernattivik – also known as Upernarsuak''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 102 – is an uninhabited island in King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq muni ...

(Upernarsuak) and Trefoldigheden off the shore. To the west and the northwest the peninsula is attached to the mainland. Several small islands where there are

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archaeological sites lie off its southeastern point.

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Seabirds and seals in Southeast Greenland
Peninsulas of Greenland Sermersooq {{greenland-geo-stub

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