Inussulissuaq Island (old spelling: ''Inugsuligssuaq'') is a small uninhabited
island in the
Melville Bay region of the
Upernavik Archipelago in
Avannaata
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Geography
In ...
municipality in northwestern
Greenland. The name of the island means "''a large cairn''" in the
Greenlandic language
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.
Geography
Inussulissuaq Island is located in the northern part of
Inussulik Bay, approximately south of
Kiatassuaq Island, and west of the mainland
Sanningassorsuaq Peninsula.
[''Upernavik Avannarleq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992] There is a small freshwater lake on the southern coast. The highest point on the island is an unnamed summit at .
Promontories
History
Inussullissuaq Island has never been permanently inhabited due to its small size. In 1930 it briefly served as a polar station for
Knud Rasmussen,
the Greenlandic
polar
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Geography
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* Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a rotating body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body rotates
* Polar climate, the c ...
explorer and
anthropologist
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. The station was named ''Bjørne Borg'' (or ''Bjørneborg'', a ''bear castle''). Its ruins can still be found on the island.
Settlement
Kullorsuaq is the closest settlement to the island, located on an island of the same name to the north of Kiatassuaq Island, away. In the south, the
Nuussuaq village on the southern coast of
Nuussuaq Peninsula is located . The island is accessible only by boat, and thus the distances to reach it are longer due to the need to navigate around the Kiatassuaq Island and Nuussuaq Peninsula, respectively.
References
{{Upernavik Archipelago
Inussulik Bay
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Islands of the Upernavik Archipelago