Ikertooq Fjord (old spelling: ''Ikertôq'') is a long

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 ...

in the

Qeqqata Qeqqata (, da, Centrum, lit=Centre) is a municipality in western Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The municipality was named after its location in the central-western part of the country. Its population is 9,378 as of January 2020. Th ...

municipality in western

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 ...

. The fjord empties into

Davis Strait Davis Strait is a northern arm of the Atlantic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. To the north is Baffin Bay. The strait was named for the English explorer Jo ...

south of

Sisimiut Sisimiut (), formerly known as Holsteinsborg, is the capital and largest city of the Qeqqata municipality, the second-largest city in Greenland, and the largest Arctic city in North America.The term 'city' is loosely used to describe any popula ...

Geography

The upper part of the fjord, a confluence of three tributary inlets at approximately is called ''Suluppaavarsiorfik'' (old spelling: ''Sulugpâvarsiorfik''). The tributary bays, from south to north, are: ''Avalleq'', ''Akulleq'' (the innermost, main arm at approximately ), and ''Maligiaq''. Itinneq, an outflow river from the large, latitudinal

Tasersuaq Tasersuaq (old spelling: ''Taserssuaq'') is a large lake in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland. The name of the lake means ''large lake'' in the Greenlandic language, and is a common name shared by several lakes in the country ...

lake, empties into the northern inlet. The fjord initially flows westward, to then turn west-south-west between the mainland peninsula in the south, and

Sarfannguit Island Sarfannguit Island ( kl, Sarfannguit Nunataat, da, Sarfannguaqland) is an island in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland. Geography The island is of elongated shape, separated from the mainland of Greenland by Sarfannguit Channel, a n ...

in the north, widening considerably at its mouth at approximately , where it empties into

. The fjord is unusual in that it connects through a very narrow waterway to the head of the narrower

Amerloq Fjord Amerloq Fjord is a long fjord in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland. The fjord empties into the Davis Strait just south of Sisimiut, whose former Inuit name was also "Amerloq". History The Amerloq Fjord then known as Rammel's Fjord ...

near the village of

Sarfannguit Sarfannguit (old spelling: ''Sarfannguaq / Sarfánguaq'') is a settlement in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland. Its population was 96 in 2020. The settlement was founded in 1843.

. The northern inlet at the fjord head is surrounded by tall mountains immediately to the south of the

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mountain group halfway between Davis Strait and the

Greenland ice sheet The Greenland ice sheet ( da, Grønlands indlandsis, kl, Sermersuaq) is a vast body of ice covering , roughly near 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is sometimes referred to as an ice cap, or under the term ''inland ice'', or its Danish equiva ...

( kl, Sermersuaq). The range flattens considerably towards the east in the area of

Kangaamiut dike swarm The Kangaamiut dike swarm (old spelling: ''Kangâmiut'') is a 2.04 billion year old dike swarm located in the Qeqqata region of western Greenland. The dikes cut Archean orthogneisses and are exposed along approximately of the coast and a similar ...

north of

Kangerlussuaq Kangerlussuaq (; ; da, Søndre Strømfjord), is a settlement in western Greenland in the Qeqqata municipality located at the head of the fjord of the same name. It is Greenland's main air transport hub and the site of Greenland's largest commer ...

, due to pressure exerted by the icesheet for long periods in the past.

Settlement

The small Sarfannguit settlement occupies the eastern promontory on Sarfannguit Island, on the northern shore of the fjord, at the narrow waterway between the mainland and Sarfannguit Island. In the past, the coastal region was dotted with several small villages, all of which are now abandoned.

References

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