Akia Island ( da, Langø) is an

uninhabited island A desert island, deserted island, or uninhabited island, is an island, islet or atoll that is not permanently populated by humans. Uninhabited islands are often depicted in films or stories about shipwrecked people, and are also used as stereotyp ...

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 In ...

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 t ...

. The name of the island means "''turned on its side''" 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 mos ...

Geography

Akia Island is located in the outer belt of islands in the

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 ...

, in the group between the Upernavik Icefjord in the north, and Nunavik Peninsula in the south, approximately to the southeast of Upernavik Island, on the other side of a small waterway separating the islands.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 In the east and south, another small waterway separates Akia from a larger Qaarsorsuaq Island. In the west, several small

skerries A skerry is a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation. Skerry, skerries, or The Skerries may also refer to: Geography Northern Ireland * Skerries, County Armagh, a townland in County Armagh * Skerry, County Antrim, a ...

such as ''Avannarleq'' ( da, Nordø), ''Qeqertasussuk'' ( da, Bruuns ø), and ''Aorrussaq'' ( da, Hvalø) buffer the western coast 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 Arct ...

. Pear-shaped and hilly, the island culminates in an unnamed peak in the central-northern part of the island. There are many small ponds and lakes in the interior of the island.

Promontories

}) , , Western Cape , , 72°45′41″ , , 56°12′52″ , - , (none) , , Northern Cape , , 72°47′22″ , , 56°03′17″ , - , Sarpinat , , Eastern Cape (not the easternmost point) , , 72°45′58″ , , 56°02′36″ , - , Umiartorfik , , Southern Cape , , 72°44′06″ , , 56°06′56″

References

{{Upernavik Archipelago Uninhabited islands of Greenland Islands of the Upernavik Archipelago