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Sermersuut Island (old spelling: ''Sermersût'', ) is an uninhabited island in the
Qeqqata Qeqqata (, ) is a municipality in western Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The municipality was named after its location in the central-western part of the country. Its population is 9,378 as of January 2020. The administrative cente ...
municipality in western
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 ...
.''Maniitsoq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992


Geography

The island is located on the shores of
Davis Strait The Davis Strait (Danish language, Danish: ''Davisstrædet'') is a southern arm of the Arctic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. To the north is Baffin Bay. The ...
, separated from
Maniitsoq Island Maniitsoq Island is an island in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland.''Maniitsoq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 Geography The island is located on the shores of Davis Strait, separated from Sermersuut Island in the north by the ...
in the south by the Ammarqoq Sound, and from the mainland in the east by the Ikamiut Kangerluarsuat fjord.Sermersuut
/ref> The island is very mountainous and glaciated in the north, with several distinct mountain peaks. The highest point on the island is .


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* Davis Strait Uninhabited islands of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub