Aukarnersuaq Island (old spelling: ''Aukarnerssuaq'') is an uninhabited
island
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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
Aukernersuaq 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 settlem ...
, 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 ...
, on the shores of Qaaneq fjord, the innermost reaches 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 ...
. In the north, Kangerlussuaq Icefjord separates the island from ''Kakiffait Sermiat'', the southern tongue of
Giesecke Glacier
Giesecke Glacier ( da, Giesecke brær) is a glacier in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Its outflow is split in the center by a nunatak. Through two tongues it drains the Greenland ice sheet westwards into Kangerlussuaq Icefjord ...
on the mainland of Greenland.
[''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992]
The innermost waterways of Tasiusaq Bay separate Aukarnersuaq from the
Nunatarsuaq
Nunatarsuaq (old spelling: ''Nunatarssuaq'', da, Hovgård Kystland) is a nunatak ( kl, nunataq) in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
Geography
Nunatarsuaq is one of several nunataks in the Melville Bay region of Greenland, w ...
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. ...
on the mainland in the southeast, from
Qaqaarissorsuaq Island in the southwest, and
Anarusuk Island
Anarusuk Island is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
Geography
Anarusuk Island is located in Tasiusaq Bay, in the north-central part of Upernavik Archipelago, on the shores of the inner reaches of Kanger ...
in the northwest. The highest point on Aukarnersuaq Island is a , unnamed peak in the southern part of the island.
References
{{Upernavik Archipelago
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Tasiusaq Bay
Islands of the Upernavik Archipelago