Storo (, meaning 'Big island') is an uninhabited island in the

Scoresby Sound Scoresby Sound (Danish: ''Scoresby Sund'', Greenlandic language, Greenlandic: ''Kangertittivaq'') is a large fjord system of the Greenland Sea on the eastern coast of Greenland. It has a tree-like structure, with a main body approximately

fjord,

Sermersooq Sermersooq () is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five previous, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capital of Greenland, and it is the most populous ...

Municipality, eastern

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 ...

Geography

Roughly triangular in shape, Storo lies to the SW of

Renland Renland is a peninsula in eastern Greenland. It is a part of the Sermersooq municipality. Despite its proximity to the coast Renland has an ice cap climate with bitterly cold winters and very low maximum temperatures in the summer. Renland was n ...

and is separated by the Snesund from the NW shore of

Milneland Milne Land or Milneland is a large island in eastern Greenland. It is the third largest island of Greenland, after the main island of Greenland and Disko Island. It is named after United Kingdom, British admiral David Milne (admiral), David Milne ...

. The small Sorte Island lies off its southern point. The island lies between the

Ofjord Ofjord (; , meaning 'Island Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 115 Administratively it lies in the ...

to the north and the

Rode Fjord Rode Fjord (, meaning 'Red Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. The Rode Fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound complex''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 115 in the area of Sermersooq mun ...

to the west; the mouths of the

Hare Fjord Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus ''Lepus''. They are herbivores and live solitarily or in pairs. They nest in slight depressions called forms, and their young are able to fend for themselves shortly after birth. The genu ...

and the

Rype Fjord Rype Fjord (; , meaning 'Grouse Fjord') is a fjord in King Christian X Land, eastern Greenland. This fjord is part of the Scoresby Sound system in the area of Sermersooq municipality. Geography The to wide and roughly long Rype Fjord is loca ...

are off its northwestern end. The island has an area of 192 km² and a shoreline of 63.3 kilometres. Storo has an ultra prominent mountain of in height. Currently, the Canadian public company Greenland Resources Inc Greenland Resources Inc
/ref> holds the mineral rights for Storø and is conducting advance exploration programs to evaluate the economic feasibility of building a gold mine.

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Uninhabited islands of Greenland Scoresby Sound {{Greenland-fjord-stub it:Storø

Geography

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