Ikerasak Island ( kl, Ikerasaap qeqertaa) is an island in Avannaata 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 i ...

, located in the southeastern part of Uummannaq Fjord, at the mouth of

Ikerasak Fjord Ikerasak Fjord ( kl, Ikerasaup Sullua, also Qarajaq Icefjord, or da, Qarajaqs Isfjord) is a fjord in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography The fjord constitutes the innermost part of the Uummannaq Fjord at the base of ...

, its innermost section.Nuussuaq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992

Geography

The island has an elongated oval shape of southeast-to-northwest orientation. To the south, it is separated from a smaller Talerua Island by the ''Ikarasanguaq'' strait, and further from

Nuussuaq Peninsula Nuussuaq Peninsula (, old spelling: ''Nûgssuaq'') is a large (180x48 km) peninsula in western Greenland. Geography The waters around the peninsula are that of Baffin Bay. To the south and southwest the peninsula is bounded by Disko Bay, ...

by the mouth of Ikerasak Fjord. In the northeast, the narrow ''Ikerasassuaq'' strait separates it from Drygalski Peninsula on the mainland. To the northwest, the central arm of Uummannaq Fjord separates it from Salliaruseq Island.

Settlement

Ikerasak Ikerasak() is a village in the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland. It had 233 inhabitants in 2020. Geography Ikerasak is located approximately 45 km southeast from Uummannaq, at the southeastern end of Ikerasak Island in the nor ...

is the only settlement on the island, perched at the southeastern tip, by the Ikerasassuaq strait.

References

{{reflist Islands of Greenland Uummannaq Fjord