Tuttorqortooq Island (old spelling: ''Tugtorqortôq'') is an 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 ...
.
Geography
Tuttorqortooq 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 ...
, at the mouth of
Kangerlussuaq Icefjord, which separates it from
Mernoq Island
Mernoq Island is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
History
With brief intervals of no permanent settlement, Mernoq Island was inhabited between 1891, when the Kuuk settlement was founded, and 1972, whe ...
in the northeast. In the east, the northern tip of
Qallunaat Island is separated from Tuttorqortooq by the narrow ''Qaqqakassaup Ikerasaa'' strait, widening into a bay to the southwest between the two islands. To the west, a small, rocky
Horse Head Island
Horse Head Island (, old spelling: ''Agpalersalik'') is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
Geography
Horse Head Island is an outlying island in Tasiusaq Bay, an indentation of Baffin Bay in the north-cen ...
buffers the island from the open waters of
Baffin Bay
Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: ''Saknirutiak Imanga''; ; ; ), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is sometimes considered a s ...
.
[''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992] The island is mountainous, with an unnamed peak in the central-western part of the island.
Promontories
References
{{Upernavik Archipelago
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Tasiusaq Bay
Islands of the Upernavik Archipelago