The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many of these islands have both a

Kalaallisut language West Greenlandic ( da, vestgrønlandsk), also known as Kalaallisut, is the primary language of Greenland and constitutes the Greenlandic language, spoken by the vast majority of the inhabitants of Greenland, as well as by thousands of Greenlan ...

name and a European language name.

Islands and archipelagoes

* Aaluik * Aasiaat Archipelago * Achton Friis Islands * Aggas * Akilia * Alluttoq Island *

Aluk Island Aluk Island or Aluk Avalleq is an island off Prins Christian Sound, in Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. It is located to the east of Aluk Tunorleq island. This island is the type locality for allanite a member of the epidote mineral ...

Ammassalik Island Ammassalik Island ( da, Ammassalik Ø) is an island in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland, with an area of .

Anoraliuirsoq Anoraliuirsoq is an uninhabited island of Greenland. The island has an area of 206.2 km ² and has a shoreline of 115.5 kilometres. See also *List of islands of Greenland The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. ...

Appat Island Appat Island (old spelling: ''Agpat'') is an uninhabitedNo ...

* Apusiaajik Island *

ATOW1996 ATOW1996 is one of the northernmost documented points of land on Earth. It is a small island about long and one metre high, located several miles north of Cape Morris Jesup in northern Greenland at . It was discovered by and named after the ...

Beaumont Island (Greenland) Beaumont Island ( da, Beaumont Ø) is an island of the Lincoln Sea, Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. The inclusion of this island in determining the international boundary between Canadian and Danis ...

* Bjorne Island *

Bjorne Islands Bjorne Islands, da, Bjørne Øer; kl, Nannut Qeqertaat) meaning 'Bear Islands', is an island group in the Scoresby Sound, NE Greenland. The islands are uninhabited. Administratively they belong to the Sermersooq municipality. History This isla ...

Bjornesk Island Gamma Island ( da, Gamma Ø) also known as Bjornesk Island is a large uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. The island has an area of 236 km2 and an elevation of 293 meters. It lies south of Jokel Bay and southwest of the Danske Isl ...

Bonsall Islands The Bonsall Islands is a small coastal island cluster in the Avannaata municipality, off northwest Greenland. The islands are named after Amos Bonsall of the Second Grinnell Expedition. Geography The Bonsall Islands are a chain of islands, islet ...

* Bontekoe Island *

Borup Island Borup Island ( da, Borup Ø), also known as West Jensen Island, is an uninhabited island of the Lincoln Sea in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. The island was formerly named after Danish zoologist Adolf Severin Jensen (1866 - 1953), professor ...

Brainard Island Brainard may refer to: * 99928 Brainard, asteroid within Sol system Places * Brainard, California: ** Modern Brainard, California ** Early name of Bracut, California * Hartford–Brainard Airport (in Hartford, Connecticut area), for small aircra ...

* Bushnan Island *

Cape Farewell Archipelago Cape Farewell Archipelago (also Nunap Isua Archipelago) is an island group located at the southern end of Greenland in Kujalleq municipality. The archipelago takes its name from Cape Farewell, a headland of Egger Island (also known as Itilleq). G ...

** Annikitsoq **

Avallersuaq Avallersuaq, old spelling ''Avatdlerssuaq'', is an uninhabited island of the Cape Farewell Archipelago in Kujalleq municipality of southern Greenland. It is a small and rocky island located east of Itilleq Island (Egger). It has an elevation o ...

Egger Island Egger Island ( da, Eggers Ø; kl, Itilleq, old spelling: ''Itivdleq'') is Greenland's southernmost island. It is located in the Kujalleq municipality and is uninhabited. Geography Egger Island is an important landmark for a small islet off Cap ...

Ikeq Island Ikeq is an island of the Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland. Geography The island has an area of 198.9 km ² and a shoreline of 89.4 kilometres. Its coast is deeply indented and its eastern part (Qunnerit) is almost separated ...

** Nunarsuaq (Nunarssuak) ** Pamialluk ** Qernertoq ** Qunnerit ** Sammisoq ** Saningassoq ** Walkendorff Island * Carey Islands * Castle Island, Greenland *

Clavering Island Clavering Island ( da, Clavering Ø) is a large island in eastern Greenland off Gael Hamke Bay, to the south of Wollaston Foreland. The Eskimonaes ''(Eskimonæs)'' radio and weather station was on this island. It was staffed by Danish scientists ...

Crown Prince Islands A crown is a traditional form of head adornment, or hat, worn by monarchs as a symbol of their power and dignity. A crown is often, by extension, a symbol of the monarch's government or items endorsed by it. The word itself is used, partic ...

Crozier Island Crozier Island () is one of three islands located in the Kennedy Channel section of Nares Strait in the high Arctic. It is part of the Avannaata municipality, Greenland. Geography Located to the SW of Franklin Island off Lafayette Bay of the Was ...

* Danmark Island * Danske Islands *

Deception Island (Greenland) Deception Island is an island in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbor, which is occasionally troubled by the underlying active volcano. This island is the caldera of an ac ...

* Diego's Island * Djævleøen *

Dog's Island Kitsissuarsuit (old spelling: ''Kitsigsuarssuit'') is a settlement in Qeqertalik municipality in western Greenland. The settlement was formerly founded in 1830 as Hunde Ejlande or Dog's Island, although it had already been used as a whaling st ...

* Edward Island * Elison Island * Ella Island *

Ensomheden Ensomheden, meaning 'Loneliness' in the Danish language, is an uninhabited island in southeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq municipality. The weather of the island is characterized by tundra climate. Geography E ...

* Finsch Islands * Franklin Island *

Franske Islands Franske Islands, da, Franske Øer, french: Iles Françaises; meaning 'French Islands', is a group of uninhabited islands of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. Administratively the islands belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Geography The ...

* Gamma Island (Greenland) * Geographical Society Island * George Island *

Godfred Hansen Island Godfred Hansen Island is an uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. History Formerly known as Olga Island ''(Olgas Ø)'' —the name used by C.S. Poulsen— and ''Ragnas Ø'' —the name used by Henning Bistrup— at the time 1906–0 ...

* Graah Archipelago ** Dannebrog Island ** Ittit ** Simîtakajâ *

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 ...

Griffenfeld Island Griffenfeld Island, Griffenfeldt Island, ( da, Griffenfeld Ø) or Umanaq ("the mountain in the shape of a heart"), after the name of the highest peak. is an uninhabited island in the Sermersooq municipality in southern Greenland. History The isla ...

* Hakluyt Island * Hannah Island *

Hanne Island Hanne is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Hanne Blank (born 1969), American historian, writer, editor and public speaker * Hanne Budtz (1915–2004), Danish politician and lawyer * Hanne Darboven (born 1941), German ...

Hans Island Hans Island ( Inuktitut and kl, Tartupaluk, ; Inuktitut syllabics: ; da, Hans Ø; french: Île Hans) is an island in the very centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait in the high Arctic region, split between the Canadian territory of ...

Hareoen Island Qeqertarsuatsiaq Island (old spelling: ''Qeqertarssuatsiaq'', da, Hareøen) is an isolated and uninhabitedHarvard Islands The Harvard Islands ( da, Harward Øer) are an island group east of Qaanaaq in the Avannaata Municipality, northwestern Greenland. They are located near the head of the Inglefield Fjord, north of the mouth of the Academy Fjord and just east of the ...

Hazenland Hazenland or ''Hazen Land'' is an uninhabited island of the Lincoln Sea in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. The island was named in May 1882 by James Booth Lockwood of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition after General William Babcock Hazen, ...

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 Th ...

Henrik Krøyer Holme Henrik Krøyer Holme is a small group of uninhabited islands of Greenland within Northeast Greenland National Park. The area was formerly part of Avannaa, originally Nordgrønland ("North Greenland"), a former county of Greenland until 31 Decemb ...

* Hornemann Island * Hovgaard Island * Igdluluarssuk *

Ikerasak Island Ikerasak Island ( kl, Ikerasaap qeqertaa) is an island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, located in the southeastern part of Uummannaq Fjord, at the mouth of Ikerasak Fjord, its innermost section.Nuussuaq, Saga Map, Tage Schj� ...

Illorsuit Island Illorsuit Island ( kl, Illorsuip qeqertaat, da, Ubekendt Ejland) is an island in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography The island is pear-shaped, and at ,

(Ubekendt Ejland) * Iluileq * Île-de-France (Greenland) * Imaarsivik * Immikkoortukajik * Inge Island *

Ingjald Island Ingjald illråde or Ingjaldr hinn illráði (''Ingold Illruler'' or ''Illready'') was a semi-legendary Swedish king of the House of Ynglings, son and successor of King Anund, and the father and predecessor of King Olof Trätälja. As with man ...

* Inner Kitsissut * Inussullissuaq Island * Ivingmiut * Jackson Island *

Joe Island (Greenland) Joe Island ( da, Joe Ø) is an island of the Nares Strait, Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. Joe Island was named after Joe (Ipiirvik or Ebierbing), an Inuit guide who accompanied Charles Francis Hall in th ...

* John Murray Island *

Josephine Peary Island Josephine may refer to: People * Josephine (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Josephine (singer), a Greek pop singer Places * Josephine, Texas, United States *Mount Josephine (disambiguation) * Josephine Co ...

Kaffeklubben Island Kaffeklubben Island or Coffee Club Island ( da, Kaffeklubben Ø; kl, Inuit Qeqertaat) is an uninhabited island lying off the northern tip of Greenland. It contains the northernmost undisputed point of land on Earth. Discovery The first rec ...

* Kanajoorartuut * Kiatak (Northumberland Island) * Kiatassuaq *

Kitak Kitak is an island in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland. In 1961 the German weather ship ''WBS 11 Hessen'' was renamed 'Kitak'. Geography The island is located on the western side of the entrance of the Sermilik Fjord ...

* Kitsissut Islands *

Kook Islands Kook or KOOK may refer to: People * Kook, a synonym for crank (person), a pejorative term for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most others consider to be ludicrously false * Kook (surname) * Kook, a slave prominent in the 1811 Germ ...

Kronprinsen Ejland Kronprinsen () is a neighbourhood and complex of modernist buildings including a landmark high-rise tower located in Malmö, Sweden in the city district of Västra Innerstaden ("The Western Inner-City"). The high-rise tower itself is commonly ...

Kuhn Island Kuhn Island ( da, Kuhn Ø) is a coastal island in Hochstetter Bay, eastern Greenland. There are coal deposits on the island. The island was discovered by the Second German North Polar Expedition (1869-1870) and is named after Franz Kuhn von Ku ...

* Kulusuk Island *

Lindhards Island Lindhard Island ( da, Lindhard Ø) is an uninhabited island of NE Greenland. Geography The island lies at the western edge of Dove Bay, east of the Bredebrae, the broad glacier producing masses of large icebergs, at the head of Borg Fjord to the ...

Little Pendulum Island Little Pendulum Island ( da, Lille Pedulum Ø) is an island in Eastern Greenland, in the Northeast Greenland National Park. History The island was named by Douglas Charles Clavering’s 1823 expedition, during which the Irish scientist Edwar ...

Littleton Island The Littleton Islands, ( Greenlandic: ''Pikiuleq'') are a group of two small coastal islands, the largest of which is Littleton Island. They are located in the Avannaata municipality, off NW Greenland. Geography Littleton is a group of two rock ...

Lockwood Island Lockwood Island ( da, Lockwood Ø) is an island of the Lincoln Sea, Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Lockwood Island is the northernmost sizeable coastal island of Greenland. The waters around the ...

* Luigi Amadeo Island * Lynn Island *

McGary Islands The McGary Islands is a small coastal island group in Avannaata municipality, off NW Greenland. The islands are named after James McGary of the Second Grinnell Expedition. They are a breeding ground for the common eider. Geography The McGary Is ...

Macmillan Island MacMillan Island ( da, MacMillan Ø), also known as East Jensen Island, is an uninhabited island of the Lincoln Sea in Peary Land, far northern Greenland. The island was formerly named after Danish zoologist Adolf Severin Jensen (1866 - 1953), pr ...

* Maniitsoq Island *

Maria Island (Greenland) Maria Island or 'wukaluwikiwayna' in island.html" ;"title="alawa kani) is a mountainous island">alawa kani) is a mountainous island located in the Tasman Sea, off the east coast of Tasmania, Australia. The island is contained within the Maria ...

Melville Monument (Greenland) Melville Monument ( kl, Usuussarsuaq) is an island in the Avannaata municipality, NW Greenland.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 200 It was named "Melville Monument" by Arctic explorer Sir John Ross in July 1818 ...

Meteorite Island Meteorite Island ( da, Meteorit Ø) is an island in Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, off NW Greenland. The Cape York Meteorite fell thousands of years ago on the southern shore of this island. Geography Meteorite Island is quite barren ...

Milne Land Milne Land or Milneland is a large island in eastern Greenland. It is the third largest island of Greenland, after the main island of Greenland and Disko Island. It is named after British admiral David Milne. This island is popular among climbe ...

Nanortalik Island Nanortalik (), formerly Nennortalik, is a town in Nanortalik Island, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland. With 1,185 inhabitants as of 2020, it is the eleventh-largest town in the country. The name ''Nanortalik'' means "Place of Polar Bear ...

* Nanuuseq *

Nares Land Nares Land or Naresland is an island in far northern Greenland. The island is named after Polar explorer Sir George Nares. Geography The island lies between the Victoria Fjord and the Nordenskjöld Fjord separated from the Freuchen Land Penin ...

* Norske Islands * Offley Island * Ole Romer Island *

Oodaaq Oodaaq or Oodap Qeqertaa is a bank of gravel and silt northeast of Greenland that has been considered by some to be the northernmost point of land on Earth, though a number of other places have also been given that title since its discovery. It ...

Otto Rud Islands Otto is a masculine German given name and a Otto (surname), surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name ...

Outer Kitsissut Outer Kitsissut ( da, Ydre Kitsissut, old spelling Ydre Kitsigsut), also known as Thorstein Islands or Torstein Islands, is an island group in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. Geography Outer Kitsissut is located to the west-north ...

Permin Land The Permin is a bay in the Saaler Bodden lagoon south of Wustrow in northeast Germany. Originally, the Permin was a channel between the Saaler Bodden and the Baltic Sea and the southern estuarine channel of the River Recknitz. It borders on the Fi ...

Princess Dagmar Island Princess Dagmar Island ( da, Prinsesse Dagmar Ø) is an uninhabited coastal island of the Wandel Sea in King Frederick VIII Land, Greenland. The island was named after Princess Dagmar of Denmark. The Danish military base/weather station Nord i ...

Princess Margaret Island Princess Margaret Island ( da, Prinsesse Margrethe Ø) is an uninhabited island of the Wandel Sea, Greenland. The island is within King Frederick VIII Land in the Northeast Greenland National Park. The island was named after Princess Margaret of De ...

Princess Thyra Island Princess Thyra Island ( da, Prinsesse Thyra Ø) is an uninhabited island of the Wandel Sea, Greenland. The island is within King Frederick VIII Land in the Northeast Greenland National Park. The island was named after Princess Thyra of Denmark. Ge ...

* Qajartalik *

Qassimiut Islands Qassimiut (old spellings: ''Qagssimiut'' and ''Kagsimiut'') is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. The settlement was founded in 1835 as a trading station. With a population of 20 in 2020, it is the smallest organize ...

* Qeertartivaq *

Qeertartivatsiaq Qeertartivatsiaq Island (old spelling: ''Qêrtartivatsiaq'') is an uninhabited island in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland. Geography Qeertartivatsiaq lies near the entrance of Sermilik Fjord on the western side, at the mout ...

Qeqertaq Qeqertaq (according to the old spelling ''K'eĸertaĸ'') is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland, located on an island off the southern shore of the Nuussuaq Peninsula in an inlet of Sullorsuaq Strait. Founded in 18 ...

* Qeqertaq Avannarleq *

Qeqertarssdaq Qeqertarssdaq is an uninhabited island 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 Hy ...

Qeqertarsuaq Island (Nuuk) Qeqertarsuaq, meaning 'The Large Island' in the Greenlandic language ( da, Storø meaning 'big island' as well), is an uninhabited island in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. Geography Qeqertarsuaq is one of three mountaino ...

* Qeqertarsuaq (Disko Island) * Qeqertarsuaq (Herbert Island) *

Qeqertarsuatsiaq Island Qeqertarsuatsiaq Island (old spelling: ''Qeqertarssuatsiaq'', da, Hareøen) is an isolated and uninhabitedQianarreq *

Qiianarteq Qiianarteq (also known as Kianartek or Qîanarteq) is an island in the municipality of Sermersooq, Greenland.GEOnet Names ...

* Qoornuup Qeqertarsua * Queen Louise Island *

Qutdleq Qulleq, Qutdleq or Kutdlek is an uninhabited island in the King Frederick VI Coast, Sermersooq municipality in southern Greenland. Geography Qulleq is an irregularly-shaped island that lies off the southeastern coast of Greenland. It is located ...

Raffles Island Raffles Island is an uninhabited island located approximately 4 km to east of the Sparrebugt bay, Liverpool Land, about 20 km north-east of the town of Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland in the Scoresby Sund area. Description It was name ...

* Romer Island (Rømer Ø) *

Ruth Island Ruth Island (also known as Ruth Cay) is an artificial island off the southern coast of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands near Port Alucroix. It was created in the mid-1960s from the dredging of ''Krauses Lagune'' and is about 40 acres (16 ha) ...

Sabine Island Sabine Island ( ; da, Sabine Ø) is an island to the northeast of Wollaston Foreland, previously known as ''Inner Pendulum Island''. It is in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. Geography Sabine Island is long from Kap Neumayer in the ...

Salleq Island Salleq Island (old spelling: ''Sagdleq'') is an uninhabited island in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is located in the north-central part of the Uummannaq Fjord.Nuussuaq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 The walls of the isl ...

Salliaruseq Island Salliaruseq Island (old spelling: ''Sagdliaruseq'', da, Storøen, translated: The-big-island) is an uninhabited

(Storøen) *

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* Sattiaatteq * Saunders Island, Greenland * Schnauder Island *

Sermersooq Island Sermersooq (, da, sted med meget is, lit=place of much ice) is a municipality in Greenland, formed on 1 January 2009 from five earlier, smaller municipalities. Its administrative seat is the city of Nuuk (formerly called Godthåb), the capita ...

* Sermersut Island *

Sermitsiaq Island Sermitsiaq Island ( da, Sadelø) is an uninhabited island in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. Geography Sermitsiaq is one of three mountainous islands located in the middle section of the long Nuup Kangerlua fjord, to th ...

Shannon Island Shannon Island ( da, Shannon Ø) is a large island in Northeast Greenland National Park in eastern Greenland, to the east of Hochstetter Foreland, with an area of . It was named by Douglas Charles Clavering on his 1823 expedition for the Royal Na ...

Simiutaq Island Simiutaq Island is a uninhabited island in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland, located in the mouth of the long Kangerlussuaq Fjord.''Maniitsoq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 It was also known informally as Cruncher Island. Supply ...

(West coast) *

(SW coast) * Skal Island (Skalø) *

Skjoldungen Skjoldungen ( kl, Saqqisikuik) is a large uninhabited island in the King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq municipality. The weather of the island is characterized by tundra climate. The i ...

Soren Norby Islands Soren may refer to: *Søren, a given name of Scandinavian origin, also spelled ''Sören'' *Suren (disambiguation), a Persian name also rendered as Soren * 3864 Søren, main belt asteroid *Sōren, also known as ''Chongryon'' and ''Zai-Nihon Chōsenj ...

Stephenson Island (Greenland) Stephenson Island ( da, Stephenson Ø) is a small, uninhabited island in the Victoria Fjord of the Lincoln Sea, which is part of the Arctic Ocean. It is located off of the northern shore of Avannaa county, Greenland, between the island Nares Land ...

Steward Island Steward Island ( da, Steward Ø; also ''Stewart Ø'' in some sources)''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 111 is an uninhabited island in King Christian IX Land, at the eastern end of Greenland. Administratively i ...

Store Koldewey Store Koldewey, meaning 'Big Koldewey', is the largest of the Koldewey Islands in King Frederick VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. History The island was visited by the Second German North Polar Expedition 1869–70, led by Carl Koldewey and re ...

* Storo (Greenland) *

Sutherland Island Sutherland Island ( da, Sutherland Ø; kl, Tigssarfik) is an island in Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, off the NW shores of Greenland. Geography Sutherland Island is located at the southern end of Smith Sound, southeast of Cape Alexander, ...

* Suunikajik *

Sverdrup Island (Greenland) Sverdrup Island ( da, Sverdrup Ø) is an uninhabited island in the far north of Greenland, in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. It is named after Otto Sverdrup. Geography Sverdrup Island is located west of Nansen Land, to the north o ...

* Talerua Island * Takiseeq *

Timmiarmiit Timmiarmiit (old spelling 'Tingmiarmit') is an uninhabited island of the King Frederick VI Coast, Sermersooq municipality, southern Greenland. Geography The island is located at the entrance of the Timmiarmiut Fjord in a very indented area of ...

Tobias Island da, Tobias Ø , sobriquet = , image_name = , image_size = , image_caption = , image_alt = , map = Greenland , map_caption = Location of Tobias Island , location = Greenland Sea , coordinates = ...

Traill Island Traill Island ( da, Traill Ø) is a large island in eastern Greenland. It is named after zoologist Thomas Stewart Traill. The island is a part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Geography Traill Island is a coastal island located in the d ...

* Trefoldigheden * Turner Island * Uiivaq *

Ujuaakajiip Nunaa Danmark Island ( kl, Ujuaakajiip Nunaa; da, Danmark Ø) is an island in Scoresby Sund. Administratively it lies in the area of Sermersooq municipality. History The island was named in 1891 by Carl Ryder during his 1891–92 East Greenland Ex ...

Upepnagssivik Upepnagssivik is an uninhabited island of the Denmark Strait, Greenland. The island has an area of 149.1 km ² and has a shoreline of 79.1 kilometres. References {{Greenland-geo-stub Uninhabited islands of Greenland ...

Upernivik Island Upernivik Island ( da, Upernivik Ø) is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography Upernivik Island is located in the Uummannaq Fjord where it is the largest island with an area of . The island is very ...

* Upernattivik * Uttorsiutit *

Uummannaq Island Uummannaq Island ( kl, Uummannap qeqertaa) is a small (12 km2) island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Located in the south-central part of the Uummannaq Fjord, it is home to the most prominent mountain on the Arctic co ...

Uummannaarsuk Uummannaarsuk is an uninhabited island in the Sermersooq municipality in southern Greenland. Geography Uummannaarsuk is a 239 m high island that lies off the southeastern coast of Greenland. It is located off Cape Cort Adelaer, to the NE of Cape ...

Uunartoq Island Alluitsup Paa (old spelling prior to the orthography reform in 1973: ''Agdluitsup pâ'') is a village in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. Alluitsup Paa had 202 residents in 2020. Presently, the community's religious activities ...

Uunartoq Qeqertaq Uunartoq Qeqertaq ( Greenlandic), ''Warming Island'' in English, is an island off the east central coast of Greenland, north of the Arctic Circle. It became recognised as an island only in September 2005, by US explorer Dennis Schmitt. It was at ...

* Valkyrie Islands *

Wolstenholme Island Wolstenholme Island ( kl, Qeqertarssuaq) is an island in Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, off northwestern Greenland. The island lies west of the Bylot Sound off Cape Atholl in the southern shore of the mouth of Wolstenholme Fjord, sou ...

Ymer Island Ymer Island ( da, Ymer Ø) is an island in northeastern Greenland. The island is a part of Northeast Greenland National Park. Ymer Island is named after the Swedish geographical journal ''Ymer'', which published many accounts of Swedish expedi ...

83-42 83-42 is a rocky islet in the Arctic Ocean which may be the northernmost permanent point of land on Earth. It is also sometimes referred to as Eklipse 0, or Schmitt’s Island, after its discoverer, Dennis Schmitt. It measures and in height, ...

Upernavik Archipelago

Aappilattoq (Upernavik Icefjord) Aappilattoq (Tasiusaq Bay) Akia Akuliaruseq Amarortalik Amitsorsuaq Anarusuk Apparsuit Atilissuaq Aukarnersuaq Ateqanngitsorsuaq Horse Head Ikerasakassak Ikermoissuaq Ikermiut Illunnguit

Innaarsuit Innaarsuit (old spelling: ''Ivnârssuit'') is an island settlement in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Located on an island of the same name, the settlement had 180 inhabitants in 2020. Upernavik Archipelago Innaarsuit is ...

Inussullissuaq Iperaq Itissaalik Kangaarsuk Karrat Kiatassuaq Kiataussaq Kingittorsuaq

Kullorsuaq Kullorsuaq (, old spelling: ''Kuvdlorssuaq'') is a settlement in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is the northernmost settlement in the Upernavik Archipelago, located on Kullorsuaq Island at the southern end of Melville Bay ...

Maniitsoq Maniitsoq (), formerly Sukkertoppen, is a town in Maniitsoq Island, western Greenland located in the Qeqqata municipality. With 2,534 inhabitants , it is the sixth-largest town in Greenland. History Archaeological finds indicate that the a ...

Mattaangassut Mernoq Naajaat Nako Nasaussaq Nuluuk Nunaa Nunatarsuaq Nutaarmiut Nutaarmiut (Tasiusaq Bay) Nuuluk Paagussat Paornivik Puugutaa Qaarsorsuaq Qaarsorsuatsiaq Qallunaat Qaneq Qaqaarissorsuaq Qasse

Qeqertarsuaq Qeqertarsuaq () is a port and town in Qeqertalik municipality, located on the south coast of Disko Island on the west coast of Greenland. Founded in 1773, the town is now home to a campus of the University of Copenhagen known as Arctic Station. ...

Qullikorsuit Qullikorsuit Island (old spelling: ''Qutdlikorssuit'') is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is located in the northern part of Upernavik Archipelago. History Qullikorsuit Island was inhabited between ...

Saarlia Saattoq Saattorsuaq

Saattup Akia Saattup Akia (meaning: that which is on the other side of the flat) is a mountain of Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is locate ...

Sanningassoq Saqqarlersuaq Singarnaq-Annertussoq Sisuarsuit

Sugar Loaf A sugarloaf was the usual form in which refined sugar was produced and sold until the late 19th century, when granulated and cube sugars were introduced. A tall cone with a rounded top was the end product of a process in which dark molasses, a r ...

Taartoq Tasiusaq Timilersua Tukingassoq Tussaaq Tuttorqortooq Uigorlersuaq Uilortussoq

Upernavik Upernavik ( Kalaallisut: "Springtime Place") is a small town in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, located on a small island of the same name. With 1,092 inhabitants as of 2020, it is the twelfth-largest town in Greenland. It ...

Mythical or phantom islands

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Fata Morgana Land Fata Morgana Land ( da, Fata Morgana Landet) is a phantom island first sighted in the Arctic, off the north-eastern coast of Greenland in 1907 by J.P. Koch and Aage Bertelsen. It has been reported between Greenland and Svalbard, at the northern ...

Groclant Groclant is the name of a phantom island generally shown off the western side of Greenland, first appearing on maps in the late 16th century. The name of the island may be an errant reading of Greenland. One of the first maps to show Groclant was ...

Thule Thule ( grc-gre, Θούλη, Thoúlē; la, Thūlē) is the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography. Modern interpretations have included Orkney, Shetland, northern Scotland, the island of Saar ...

External links

Islands of Greenland @ United Nations Environment Programme
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World island information @ WorldIslandInfo.com
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Islands An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be cal ...