Tasersuaq (old spelling: ''Taserssuaq'') is a large

lake A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much lar ...

in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western

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 ...

. The name of the lake means ''large lake'' in the

Greenlandic language Greenlandic ( kl, kalaallisut, link=no ; da, grønlandsk ) is an Eskimo–Aleut language with about 56,000 speakers, mostly Greenlandic Inuit in Greenland. It is closely related to the Inuit languages in Canada such as Inuktitut. It is the m ...

, and is a common name shared by several lakes in the country.

Geography

Tasersuaq is a latitudinal lake of elongated sausage shape, extending from approximately in the west to in the east, located halfway between

Sisimiut Sisimiut (), formerly known as Holsteinsborg, is the capital and largest city of the Qeqqata Administrative divisions of Greenland, municipality, the List of cities and towns in Greenland, second-largest city in Greenland, and the largest Arctic ...

in the west and Kangerlussuaq in the east, approximately east of the former, and west of the latter. In the northwest the lake is bounded by tall mountains of the Pingu mountain group. The range flattens considerably towards the east in the area of Kangaamiut dike swarm north of Kangerlussuaq, due to pressure exerted by the

Greenland ice sheet The Greenland ice sheet ( da, Grønlands indlandsis, kl, Sermersuaq) is a vast body of ice covering , roughly near 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is sometimes referred to as an ice cap, or under the term ''inland ice'', or its Danish equ ...

( kl, Sermersuaq) for long periods in the past. The eastern end of the lake is located just west of the Tarajornitsut highland.

References

Panorama

{{Panorama , image = File:Tasersuaq lake in summer 2010 (1).jpg , height = 300 , alt = Tasersuaq lake photographed during Arctic Circle Trail, Greenland , caption = {{center, Panorama of Tasersuaq lake from 9 August 2010 Lakes of Greenland ceb:Tasersuaq (lanaw sa Qeqqata, lat 67,13, long -53,05) sv:Tasersuaq (sjö i Grönland, Qeqqata, lat 67,13, long -53,05)