Raffles Island is an uninhabited island located approximately 4 km to east of the Sparrebugt bay, Liverpool Land, about 20 km north-east of the town of Ittoqqortoormiit,

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in the Scoresby Sund area.

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It was named by William Scoresby Jr. in 1822 as Raffles Island in honour of Reverend Thomas Raffles (1788–1863), a prominent independent minister.Geological survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21 (2010), 117-368. Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland, http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr21/nr21_p117-368.pdf The alternative native Greenlandic names of Agpalik or Appalik are also in use. It is also known with the Danish names of Raffle Ø or Raffles Ø. The highest point of the island lies at 550m above the sea level. The island hosts a little lake, called Raffles Sø. Its mean temperature is almost always close to 0 degrees Celsius. Gull colonies have been recorded on the island.Boertmann, David (1994). An Annotated Checklist to the Birds of Greenland. Meddelelser om Groenland, Bioscience.

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Uninhabited islands of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

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