Castle Island ( da, Castle Ø) is an island in far northern

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 ...

. Administratively it is part of the

Northeast Greenland National Park Northeast Greenland National Park ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq, da, Grønlands Nationalpark) is the world's largest national park and the 10th List of largest protected areas in the world, largest protected area (the only large ...

Geography

Castle Island is located in Saint Andrew Bay, east of

Hendrik Island Hendrik Island is an island in far northern Greenland. Its area is 583 km2. It is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. The island is named after Inuit Arctic explorer Hendrik Olsen, who was a member of Knud Rasmussen's Second Thu ...

, in the mouth area of

Sherard Osborn Fjord Sherard Osborn Fjord is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the NNW, the fjord opens into the Lincoln Sea. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. This fjord was named after Royal Navy admiral and Arctic explorer She ...

. It is separated from Hendrik Island by a wide sound. The northernmost headland of the island is Cape Cleveland and the southernmost

Cape Gray Cape Gray is a rocky cape which forms the east side of the entrance to Commonwealth Bay, part of the George V Coast of Antarctica. The cape is actually a small rocky island which is joined to the icecap of the mainland by an ice ramp. It was disc ...

. The island is

unglaciated A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features, such as ...

with two lakes between two mountain ridges. The peak in its eastern end reaches . The sea around the island is rarely free from ice.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 94

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Uninhabited islands of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

Geography

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