Anoritooq (old spelling: ''Anoritôq'') is a

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. ...

( kl, nunataq) in

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 ...

Geography

Anoritooq is located on the mainland of Greenland in the northern 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 ...

. To the north, Greenland icesheet drains into

Sugar Loaf Bay Sugar Loaf Bay 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 an island of the same name in the bay, ...

via

Cornell Glacier Cornell Glacier ( kl, Ikissuup Sermersua, old spelling: ''Ikigssûp Sermerssua'', da, Cornell Gletscher) is a tidewater glacier in Avannaata municipality on the northwestern shore of Greenland. It drains the Greenland ice sheet westwards into ...

separating it from the base of

Nuussuaq Peninsula Nuussuaq Peninsula (, old spelling: ''Nûgssuaq'') is a large (180x48 km) peninsula in western Greenland. Geography The waters around the peninsula are that of Baffin Bay. To the south and southwest the peninsula is bounded by Disko Bay, ...

.''Upernavik Avannarleq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 The nunatak has several summits, with the highest reaching . Due to the glacial retreat, another nunatak,

Orsugissap Qaqqarsua Orsugissap Qaqqarsua (old spelling: ''Orssugissap Qaqqarssua'') is a nunatak ( kl, nunataq) of the Greenland ice sheet in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography Orsugissap Qaqqarsua () is located on the mainland of Green ...

, culminating in an summit, is now conjoint with Anoritooq.

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