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Ikerasak Island () is an island in
The island has an elongated oval shape of southeast-to-northwest orientation. To the south, it is separated from a smaller Talerua Island by the ''Ikarasanguaq'' strait, and further from
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 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 ...
, located in the southeastern part of Uummannaq Fjord, at the mouth of Ikerasak Fjord
Ikerasak Fjord (, also Qarajaq Icefjord, or ) is a fjord in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
Geography
The fjord constitutes the innermost part of the Uummannaq Fjord at the base of Nuussuaq Peninsula.Nuussuaq, Saga Map, Ta ...
, its innermost section.Nuussuaq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992
Geography
The island has an elongated oval shape of southeast-to-northwest orientation. To the south, it is separated from a smaller Talerua Island by the ''Ikarasanguaq'' strait, and further from Nuussuaq Peninsula
Nuussuaq Peninsula (, old spelling: ''Nûgssuaq'') is a large () 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, an inlet ...
by the mouth of Ikerasak Fjord.
In the northeast, the narrow ''Ikerasassuaq'' strait separates it from Drygalski Peninsula on the mainland. To the northwest, the central arm of Uummannaq Fjord separates it from Salliaruseq Island.
Settlement
Ikerasak
Ikerasak () is a village in the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland. It had 233 inhabitants in 2020.
Geography
Ikerasak is located approximately 45 km southeast from Uummannaq, at the southeastern end of Ikerasak Island in the n ...
is the only settlement on the island, perched at the southeastern tip, by the Ikerasassuaq strait.
References
{{reflist Islands of Greenland Uummannaq Fjord