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Horse Head Island ( kl, Appalersalik, old spelling: ''Agpalersalik'') 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 ...
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

Horse Head Island is an outlying island 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 ...
, an indentation of
Baffin Bay Baffin Bay ( Inuktitut: ''Saknirutiak Imanga''; kl, Avannaata Imaa; french: Baie de Baffin), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland, is defined by the International Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arct ...
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 ...
. The closest island is
Tuttorqortooq Island Tuttorqortooq Island (old spelling: ''Tugtorqortôq'') is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography Tuttorqortooq Island is located in Tasiusaq Bay, in the north-central part of Upernavik Archipelago, ...
in the east.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992


References

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