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

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Islands and archipelagoes

* Aaluik *

Aasiaat Archipelago Aasiaat () or Ausiait, formerly Egedesminde, is a town in the Qeqertalik municipality in western Greenland, located in the heart of Aasiaat Archipelago at the southern end of Disko Bay. With a population of 3,069 as of 2020, it is Greenland's fo ...

* Achton Friis Islands * Aggas *

Akilia Akilia Island is an island in southwestern Greenland, about 22 kilometers south of Nuuk (Godthåb), at . Akilia is the location of a rock formation that has been proposed to contain the oldest known sedimentary rocks on Earth, and perhaps the olde ...

Alluttoq Island Alluttoq Island ( da, Arveprinsen Ejland) is a large , uninhabitedAluk 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 *

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

Apusiaajik Island Apusiaajik Island (old spelling: ''Apusiâjik'') is an uninhabited island in the Sermersooq municipality on the southeastern shore of Greenland.Tasiilaq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 It is an outlying island in the Ammassalik archipelago of islan ...

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 (A ...

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 Island, da, Bjørneø, meaning 'Bear Island', is an island in NE Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Northeast Greenland National Park. It is the only island in the inner Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord system. History This island was ...

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 *

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 Bontekoe is a surname. Notable persons with the name include: * Cornelis Bontekoe ( 1644–1685), Dutch physician * Johan Bontekoe (1943–2006), Dutch swimmer *Willem Bontekoe (1587–1657), Dutch sea captain See also *, a Dutch merchant ship of ...

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 a ...

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 of . ...

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 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 Atl ...

** Nunarsuaq (Nunarssuak) ** Pamialluk ** Qernertoq **

Qunnerit 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 fr ...

Sammisoq Sammisoq (old spelling ''Sangmissoq'', da, Christian IV Ø; English traditional:''Christian IV Island'') is an island in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland, located northeast of Uummannarsuaq cape. It is the largest island of the Cap ...

** Saningassoq **

Walkendorff Island Valkendorf (Denmark) or Walkendorff ( Sweden) is a Danish and Swedish medieval noble family, which can be traced back to the 14th century with the arrival in Denmark of knight Heinrich (Henning) Valkendorf. The most prominent member of the Danish ...

Carey Islands The Carey Islands ( da, Carey Øer; kl, Kitsissut) are an island group off Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, northwest Greenland. Located relatively far offshore the Carey Islands are the westernmost point of Greenland as a territory. T ...

Castle Island, Greenland Castle Island ( da, Castle Ø) is an island in far northern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Geography Castle Island is located in Saint Andrew Bay, east of Hendrik Island, in the mouth area of Sher ...

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 *

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 Washi ...

Danmark Island 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 Expe ...

Danske Islands Danske Islands, da, Danske Øer; meaning 'Danish Islands', is an island group of the Greenland Sea, NE Greenland. The islands are uninhabited. Administratively they belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park. Name conflict This island gr ...

* Deception Island (Greenland) * Diego's Island * Djævleøen * Dog's Island *

Edward Island Edward Island ( da, Edvard Ø) is an uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. The island is unglaciated. Geography Edward Island is a coastal island located east of Queen Louise Land, off Cape Stop, east of Borg Fjord and north of Godfr ...

* Elison Island *

Ella Island Ella Island, or Ella Ø, is an island in eastern Greenland, within Northeast Greenland National Park. Geography Ella Island is located at the mouth of Kempe Fjord in the northern end of King Oscar Fjord. To the east lie larger Traill Island and Ge ...

* Ensomheden *

Finsch Islands Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839, Warmbrunn – 31 January 1917, Braunschweig) was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer. He is known for a two-volume monograph on the parrots of the world which earned him a doctorate ...

* Franklin Island * Franske Islands *

Gamma Island (Greenland) 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 Isla ...

Geographical Society Island Geographical Society Island () is an island off Foster Bay in northeastern Greenland. Geography The island has an area of 1,717 km2. It is mountainous with Svedenborg Fjeld as the highest point at 1,730 m. To the north lies the mouth o ...

George Island George Island () is the second largest of the Speedwell Island Group in the Falkland Islands with a land area of . It lies south of Speedwell Island and south west of East Falkland, and is separated from Lafonia by Eagle Passage. The island is ...

* Godfred Hansen Island * 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 t ...

* Griffenfeld Island *

Hakluyt Island Hakluyt Island ( kl, Appasuak, da, Hakluyt Ø) is an island in Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, off northwest Greenland. Geography Hakluyt Island lies off the western shore of Kiatak (Northumberland Island). It is part of a small group of ...

* Hannah Island * Hanne Island *

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 *

Harvard 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, who ha ...

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 Thu ...

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 December ...

Hornemann Island Hornemann or Horneman may refer to: * C. F. E. Horneman (Christian Frederik Emil, 1840–1906), Danish composer, grandson of Christian Horneman * Christian Horneman (1765–1844), Danish painter * Christian Hersleb Horneman (1781–1860), Norwegian ...

* 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 Iluileq (named 'Ilivilik' in old maps) is an uninhabited island in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. History Wilhelm August Graah (1793–1863) met groups of Southeast-Greenland Inuit on the island during his 1828–30 expedition ...

Île-de-France (Greenland) Île-de-France is an uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, 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 ...

* Imaarsivik * Immikkoortukajik *

Inge Island Inge is a given name in various Germanic language-speaking cultures. In Swedish and Norwegian, it is mostly used as a masculine, but less often also as a feminine name, sometimes as a short form of Ingeborg, while in Danish, Estonian, Frisian, Ge ...

* Ingjald Island *

Inner Kitsissut Inner Kitsissut ( da, Indre Kitsissut, old spelling Indre Kitsigsut) is an island group in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. Geography Inner Kitsissut is located at the mouth of Coppermine Bay on the southern side, at a minimum di ...

Inussullissuaq Island Inussulissuaq Island (old spelling: ''Inugsuligssuaq'') is a small uninhabited island in the Melville Bay region of the Upernavik Archipelago in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. The name of the island means "''a large cairn''" in ...

* Ivingmiut *

Jackson Island Jackson Island (russian: Остров Джексона, ''Ostrov Dzheksona'') is an island located in Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Federation. This island is part of the Zichy Land subgroup of the central part of the archipelago ...

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 the ...

John Murray Island John Murray Island, Danish John Murray Ø, is an uninhabited island in the far north of Greenland, in the Northeast Greenland National Park area. Geography John Murray Island is located off the mouth of J.P. Koch Fjord in the Lincoln Sea Linc ...

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 Count ...

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 *

Kitsissut Islands Kitsissut (old spelling Kitsigsut) is an island group in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. Geography Kitsissut is an island chain located about to the west-northwest of Cape Farewell and 15 km to the south-southeast of Cape Egede ...

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 *

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 ...

Kulusuk Island Kulusuk Island ( kl, Kulusup qeqertaa) is an island in the Sermersooq municipality on the southeastern shore of Greenland.Tasiilaq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 It is an outlying island in the Ammassalik archipelago of islands on the coast of the ...

* Lindhards Island *

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 Edward S ...

* Littleton Island *

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 i ...

Luigi Amadeo Island is a fictional character featured in video games and related media released by Nintendo. Created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, Luigi is portrayed as the younger fraternal twin brother and sidekick of Mario, Nintendo's masc ...

* 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 The common eider (pr ...

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 Maniitsoq Island is an island in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland.''Maniitsoq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 Geography The island is located on the shores of Davis Strait, separated from Sermersuut Island in the north by the ...

* Maria Island (Greenland) *

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 climber ...

* Nanortalik Island *

Nanuuseq Nanuuseq, also known as ''Nanûseq'' or ''Nanusek'' is an uninhabited island in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. Geography Nanuuseq is a coastal island, although it is also considered a peninsula owing to it almost being attached ...

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 Penins ...

Norske Islands Norske Islands, da, Norske Øer; meaning 'Norse Islands', is a group of two uninhabited islands of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. They were named by the Denmark expedition in honor of the two Norwegian expedition members. Geography The Norske I ...

Offley Island Offley is a civil parish in the English county of Hertfordshire, between Hitchin and Luton. The main village is Great Offley, and the parish also contains the nearby hamlets of Little Offley and The Flints. In the south-west of the parish, n ...

* 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 *

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 *

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 Qajartalik ( Inuktitut for "where there is a kayak") is a petroglyph site located on the Qajartalik peninsula of Qikertaaluk Island, Nunavut, approximately 40 km southeast of Kangirsujuaq, Quebec. The site consists of over 150 carvings of faces ...

* Qassimiut Islands * Qeertartivaq * Qeertartivatsiaq *

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 183 ...

Qeqertaq Avannarleq Qeqertaq Avannarleq () is an unofficial name of what was thought to be a previously uncharted island in the Arctic Ocean, discovered in August 2021. It is within the Arctic Circle, off of the northern tip of Greenland, and consists primarily of se ...

* Qeqertarssdaq *

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) Disko Island ( kl, Qeqertarsuaq, da, Diskoøen) is a large island in Baffin Bay, off the west coast of Greenland. It has an area of ,Qeqertarsuaq (Herbert Island) Qeqertarsuaq or Herbert Island is an island in Baffin Bay near Qaanaaq in the Avannaata municipality, NW Greenland. The island has an area of 223 km2. Qeqertarsuaq, meaning "Large Island", is the name of several other places in Greenland. I ...

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

Qoornuup Qeqertarsua Qoornup Qeqertarsua Island ( da, Bjørneøen) is an uninhabited island in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. Geography Qoornup Qeqertarsua is one of three mountainous islands located in the middle run of the Nuup Kangerlua f ...

Queen Louise Island Queen Louise Island ( da, Dronning Louise Ø) or Kissarsiitilik is an uninhabited island in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. The island was named ''Dronning Louise Ø'' after Queen Louise of Sweden (1851–1926), wife of King Fred ...

* Qutdleq *

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 named b ...

* 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 Saint Croix; nl, Sint-Kruis; french: link=no, Sainte-Croix; Danish and no, Sankt Croix, Taino: ''Ay Ay'' ( ) is an i ...

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 (Storøen) * Salve Island * Sattiaatteq *

Saunders Island, Greenland Saunders Island ( kl, Appat; da, Saunders Ø) is an island in North Star Bay, Baffin Bay in the Avannaata municipality of northwest Greenland. The island is named after Commander James Saunders of the British Royal Navy. Geography The isl ...

Schnauder Island Schnauder Island is an uninhabited island of the Greenland Sea, Greenland. This island was named after German astronomer Max Schnauder (1860-1939) by the ill-fated Denmark Expedition. Geography Schnauder Island lies in the northern Jokel Bay a ...

* Sermersooq Island *

Sermersut Island Sermersuut Island (old spelling: ''Sermersût'', da, Hamborgerland) is an uninhabited island in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland.''Maniitsoq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 Geography The island is located on the shores of Davis ...

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 the ...

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 N ...

* Simiutaq Island (West coast) * Simiutaq Island (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 isl ...

* Soren Norby Islands * Stephenson Island (Greenland) * Steward Island *

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 r ...

* Storo (Greenland) * Sutherland Island * 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 *

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 ...

* Trefoldigheden * Turner Island * Uiivaq * Ujuaakajiip Nunaa * Upepnagssivik *

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 * Uunartoq Island *

Uunartoq Qeqertaq Uunartoq Qeqertaq (Greenlandic language, 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 Denn ...

Valkyrie Islands In Norse mythology, a valkyrie ("chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who guide souls of the dead to the god Odin's hall Valhalla. There, the deceased warriors become (Old Norse "single (or once) fighters"Orchard (1997:3 ...

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, south o ...

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 expedit ...

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, a ...

Upernavik Archipelago

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

Ikermiut Ikermiut is a former settlement in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It was located on Ikermiut Island in the center of Inussulik Bay, a bay in the northern part of Upernavik Archipelago.''Upernavik Avannarleq'', Saga Map, Tage Sc ...

Illunnguit Innaarsuit Inussullissuaq Iperaq

Itissaalik Itissaalik (old spelling: ''Itivsâlik'', also Itussaalik) is a former settlement in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It was located in the northern part of Upernavik Archipelago, on the southern shore of Itissaalik Island, an i ...

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 area ...

Mattaangassut Mernoq

Naajaat Naajaat (Kalaallisut: "Seagulls") is a settlement in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Former spellings include Naujât, Naujat, and Naajat. Located on a small island of the same name, the settlement has 49 inhabitants as of 2020 ...

Nako Nasaussaq Nuluuk Nunaa

Nunatarsuaq Nunatarsuaq (old spelling: ''Nunatarssuaq'', da, Hovgård Kystland) is a nunatak ( kl, nunataq) in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography Nunatarsuaq is one of several nunataks in the Melville Bay region of Greenland, w ...

Nutaarmiut Nutaarmiut (old spelling: ''Nutârmiut'') is an island settlement in Avannaata municipality, in northwestern Greenland. It had 43 inhabitants in 2020. Upernavik Archipelago Nutaarmiut is located within Upernavik Archipelago, a vast archipel ...

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 Saarlia

Saattoq Saattoq (old spelling: ''Sâtoq'') is a former settlement in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It was located in the north-central part of Upernavik Archipelago, in Tasiusaq Bay, straddling Saattorsuaq Island, and the nearby ''Saat ...

Saattorsuaq Saattup Akia Sanningassoq Saqqarlersuaq Singarnaq-Annertussoq Sisuarsuit Sugar Loaf 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 c ...

Mythical or
phantom islands A phantom island is a purported island which was included on maps for a period of time, but was later found not to exist. They usually originate from the reports of early sailors exploring new regions, and are commonly the result of navigati ...

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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 literature, ancient Greek and Latin literature, Roman literature and cartography. Modern interpretations have included Orkney, Shet ...

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 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 ...

Islands and archipelagoes

Upernavik Archipelago

Mythical or phantom islands A phantom island is a purported island which was included on maps for a period of time, but was later found not to exist. They usually originate from the reports of early sailors exploring new regions, and are commonly the result of navigati ...

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Mythical or
phantom islands A phantom island is a purported island which was included on maps for a period of time, but was later found not to exist. They usually originate from the reports of early sailors exploring new regions, and are commonly the result of navigati ...