Nasaussap Saqqaa (old spelling: ''Nasaussap Sarqâ'', da, Ussing Isfjord) is a
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
Avannaata
Avannaata (, da, Det Nordlige, lit=The Northern) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality. It encompasses an area of 522,700 km2 and has 10,726 inhabitants.
Geography
In ...
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 is t ...
.
[''Upernavik Avannarleq'', Saga Map, 1:250.000, Tage Schjøtt, 1992]
Geography
The long fjord is an inlet of
Sugar Loaf Bay
Sugar Loaf Bay is a bay in the Upernavik Archipelago in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is an indentation of northeastern Baffin Bay. The name of the bay derives from the name of an island of the same name in the bay, Sug ...
, flowing to the west-northwest between
Qullikorsuit Island in the southwest, and the
Amitsorsuaq and
Nasaussaq islands in the north. The
Ussing Glacier or Ussing Bræer Glacier drains 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 ...
into the head of the fjord.
Ussing Bræer
/ref> The shores of Nasaussap Saqqaa are uninhabited; the closest settlement is Nuussuaq
Nuussuaq (old spelling: ''Nûgssuaq''), formerly Kraulshavn, is a settlement in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is the only mainland settlement in the Upernavik Archipelago, located near the western tip of the Nuussuaq Penin ...
on a peninsula of the same name, to the northwest of the fjord mouth.
References
External links
1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet B-8
Sugar Loaf Bay
Fjords of the Upernavik Archipelago
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