Tuttorqortooq Island (old spelling: ''Tugtorqortôq'') is an uninhabited

island An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be ...

Avannaata Avannaata (, da, Det Nordlige, lit=The Northern) 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 I ...

municipality in northwestern

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 ...

Geography

Tuttorqortooq Island is located in

Tasiusaq Bay Tasiusaq Bay (old spelling: ''Tasiussaq'') 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 name of the settleme ...

, 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 Kangerlussuaq Icefjord (old spelling: ''Kangerdlugssuaq'', da, Giesecke Isfjord) is a fjord in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography The long fjord flows to the northwest between the mainland of Greenland in the northeas ...

, 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, when ...

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 ( kl, Appalersalik, 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 ...

buffers the island from the open waters of

Baffin Bay Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: ''Saknirutiak Imanga''; kl, Avannaata Imaa; french: Baie de Baffin), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Ar ...

.''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