Amarortalik Island is an uninhabited

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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

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. The name of the island means "''the place of wolves''" 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

Location within the archipelago

Amarortalik Island is located in the southern part of 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 Nunavik Peninsula in the south, and Upernavik Icefjord in the north.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 In the west, the narrow

Torsukattak Strait Torsukattak Strait (old spelling: ''Torssukátak'') is a strait in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography Located in the northeastern part of Uummannaq Fjord, it separates the Ukkusissat Peninsula in the northeast from A ...

separates Amarortalik from

Akuliaruseq Island Akuliaruseq Island is an uninhabited island in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography Location within the archipelago Akuliaruseq Island is located in the southern part of the Upernavik Archipelago, in the group bet ...

. In the north, the small ''Kangerluarsuk Fjord'' separates it from Kangerluarsup Nunaa Peninsula, a peninsula branching off to the west from Koch's Land on the mainland of Greenland. Koch's land in turn is separated from Amarortalik by a small, unnamed strait. The long

Eqalugaarsuit Sulluat Fjord Eqalugaarsuit (old spelling: ''Eqalugârssuit'') is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland, located southeast of Qaqortoq and northwest of Alluitsup Paa. Its population was 49 in 2020. Until January, 2009, the settlement ...

separates the island from the large

Kangeq Peninsula Kangeq Peninsula is a peninsula of Greenland. It is located 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 a ...

in the south.

Topography

Like all larger islands in the neighborhood, Amarortalik Island is very mountainous. The highest point is an unnamed peak of in the southern part of the island.

Geology

The rocks on the island are of

Precambrian The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pꞒ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon. The Precambrian is so named because it preceded the Cambrian, the first period of the ...

origin, with

Albian The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous Epoch/Series. Its approximate time range is 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 100.5 ± 0.9 M ...

Campanian The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). In chronostratigraphy, it is the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous Series. Campanian s ...

sediments Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles. For example, sand a ...

References

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