Nutaarmiut Island (old spelling: ''Nutârmiut'') is an uninhabited
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island 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 ...
, with an area of .
Geography
The island is located in the southern part of
Upernavik Archipelago
Upernavik Archipelago is a vast coastal archipelago in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, off the shores of northeastern Baffin Bay. The archipelago extends from the northwestern coast of Sigguup Nunaa peninsula in the south at ...
, on the coast 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 Hydrographic Organization as a marginal sea of the Arct ...
, approximately east-south-east of
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 ...
town.
[Upernavik, Saga Map, 1:250.000, Tage Schjøtt, 1992] To the west, the
Akornat Strait separates the island from
Qaarsorsuaq Island. To the northwest and northeast, small channels separate the island from
Aappilattoq Island and several smaller
skerries
A skerry is a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation.
Skerry, skerries, or The Skerries may also refer to:
Geography
Northern Ireland
* Skerries, County Armagh, a townland in County Armagh
* Skerry, County Antrim, a ...
on the southern coast of the inner
Upernavik Icefjord.
The
Ammarqua Strait separates Nutaarmiut Island from four large islands in the east,
Uilortussoq Island
Uilortussoq Island is an island of Greenland. It is located in Baffin Bay in the Upernavik Archipelago
Upernavik Archipelago is a vast coastal archipelago in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, off the shores of northeastern B ...
and
Saninngassoq Island in the north;
Nako Island and
Akuliaruseq Island
Akuliaruseq Island is an uninhabited island in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
Geography
Location within the archipelago
Akuliaruseq Island is located in the southern part of the Upernavik Archipelago, in the group bet ...
in the south. The
Eqalugaarsuit Sulluat Fjord
Eqalugaarsuit (old spelling: ''Eqalugârssuit'') is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland, located southeast of Qaqortoq and northwest of Alluitsup Paa. Its population was 49 in 2020.
Until January, 2009, the settlement ...
opens into Ammarqua Strait immediately to the east of the southern cape. In the southeast, the
Ineraq Island and the double Singarnaq-Annertussoq Island separate Nutaarmiut Island from the open Baffin Bay.
References
{{Upernavik Archipelago
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Islands of the Upernavik Archipelago