Cape Farewell Archipelago (also Nunap Isua Archipelago) is an island group located at the southern end of
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 ...
in
Kujalleq
Kujalleq ( Greenlandic: , da, Den Syden, lit=The South) is a municipality on the southern tip of Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The administrative center of the municipality is in Qaqortoq (formerly called Julianehåb).
Creation
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municipality. The
archipelago
An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
Examples of archipelagos include: the Indonesian Archi ...
takes its name from
Cape Farewell, a headland of
Egger Island
Egger Island ( da, Eggers Ø; kl, Itilleq, old spelling: ''Itivdleq'') is Greenland's southernmost island. It is located in the Kujalleq municipality and is uninhabited.
Geography
Egger Island is an important landmark for a small islet off Cap ...
(also known as Itilleq).
Geography
The Cape Farewell Archipelago is separated from the mainland's south coast by
Prince Christian Sound
The Prince Christian Sound (Greenlandic: Ikerasassuaq; Danish:Prins Christians Sund) is a waterway in Southern Greenland.
It separates the mainland from Sammisoq (Christian IV Island) and other islands of the Cape Farewell Archipelago near the so ...
in the north and by the
Torsukattak Fjord in the west. The main islands of the group are characterized as large and mountainous, surrounded by
fjord
In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Ice ...
-like passages. There are also several islets and rocks.
Islands
Sammisoq
Sammisoq (old spelling ''Sangmissoq'', da, Christian IV Ø; English traditional:''Christian IV Island'') is an island in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland, located northeast of Uummannarsuaq cape. It is the largest island of the C ...
(Christian IV Island) is the largest island of the archipelago. Other significant islands include Egger Island (Itilleq), the southernmost of the group,
Nunarsuaq (Nunarssuak),
Pamialluk,
Annikitsoq,
Qunnerit
Ikeq is an island of the Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.
Geography
The island has an area of 198.9 km ² and a shoreline of 89.4 kilometres.
Its coast is deeply indented and its eastern part (Qunnerit) is almost separated fr ...
,
Ikeq,
Walkendorff and
Qernertoq (Kasit), as well as the
Avallersuaq
Avallersuaq, old spelling ''Avatdlerssuaq'', is an uninhabited island of the Cape Farewell Archipelago in Kujalleq municipality of southern Greenland.
It is a small and rocky island located east of Itilleq Island (Egger). It has an elevation of . ...
and
Saningassoq islets.
Avallersuaq
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See also
*List of islands of Greenland
The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many of these islands have both a Kalaallisut language name and a European language name.
Islands and archipelagoes
* Aaluik
* Aasiaat Archipelago
* Achton Friis Islands
* A ...
Bibliography
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References
Archipelagoes of Greenland
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Kujalleq
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