Saattorsuaq Island (old spelling: ''Sâtorssuaq'') is a small, uninhabited

island An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be ...

Avannaata Avannaata (, da, Det Nordlige, lit=The Northern) 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 I ...

municipality in northwestern

Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is ...

History

The island was inhabited between 1881 and 1957, when a small Saattoq village of several families was scattered between the island, and the Saattoq skerry just off the northern coast.

Geography

Saattorsuaq Island is located in

Tasiusaq Bay Tasiusaq Bay (old spelling: ''Tasiussaq'') 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 name of the settleme ...

, 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 ...

. The island is separated from

Nuuluk Island Nuuluk Island (old spelling: ''Nûluk'') is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography Nuuluk Island is located in Tasiusaq Bay, in the north-central part of Upernavik Archipelago, on the shores of the ...

in the northeast, Aappilattoq Island in the southwest,

Nutaarmiut Island Nutaarmiut Island (old spelling: ''Nutârmiut'') is an uninhabitedQallunaat Island Qallunaat Island (old spelling: ''Qavdlunât'') is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. History Qallunaat Island was briefly inhabited between 1898, when the Sarfaq settlement was founded, and 1919, when ...

in the northwest by the inner waterways of Tasiusaq Bay.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992

References

Uninhabited islands of Greenland Tasiusaq Bay Islands of the Upernavik Archipelago {{Greenland-geo-stub