Ateqanngitsorsuaq Island (old spelling: ''Ateqángitsorssuaq'') is an uninhabited

island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

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

Ateqanngitsorsuaq Island is located in the outer belt of islands 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 settlem ...

, in the south-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 ...

. In the south, it is separated from sibling

Innaarsuit Island Innaarsuit Island (old spelling: ''Ivnârssuit'') is an island in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, home to the Innaarsuit settlement. Geography Innaarsuit Island is located in the outer belt of islands in Tasiusaq Bay, in ...

by a very narrow channel. Unlike the latter, it is mountainous, with the highest point reaching in an unnamed summit in the center of the island.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 The inner waterways of Tasiusaq Bay separate it from

Qaqaarissorsuaq Island Qaqaarissorsuaq Island (old spelling: ''Qaqârigssorssuaq'') is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography The egg-shaped Qaqaarissorsuaq Island is located in Tasiusaq Bay, in the central part of Upern ...

in the northeast. Several

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buffer the eastern coast of the island.

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

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