Saattorsuaq Island (old spelling: ''Sâtorssuaq'') is a small, uninhabited
island
An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...
in
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 ...
.
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 (Danish language, Danish: ''Vakkerprydsbugt'') 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 na ...
, 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 ...
Nutaarmiut Island
Nutaarmiut Island (old spelling: ''Nutârmiut'') is an uninhabitedQallunaat Island in the northwest by the inner waterways of Tasiusaq Bay.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992