Nuuluk Island (old spelling: ''Nûluk'') is an uninhabited

island 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 ...

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 ...

Geography

Nuuluk Island is located in

Tasiusaq Bay Tasiusaq Bay (old spelling: ''Tasiussaq'') 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 the settlem ...

, in the north-central 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 shores of the inner reaches of Kangerlussuaq Icefjord, which in the northeast separates it from

Giesecke Glacier Giesecke Glacier ( da, Giesecke brær) is a glacier in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Its outflow is split in the center by a nunatak. Through two tongues it drains the Greenland ice sheet The Greenland ice sheet ( da, Grø ...

on the mainland of Greenland.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 The island is separated from

Anarusuk Island Anarusuk Island is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography Anarusuk Island is located in Tasiusaq Bay, in the north-central part of Upernavik Archipelago, on the shores of the inner reaches of Kanger ...

in the southeast by a small ''Ikerasaarsuk'' channel. The inner waterways of Tasiusaq Bay separate it from

Qallunaat Island Qallunaat Island (old spelling: ''Qavdlunât'') is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. History Qallunaat Island was briefly inhabited between 1898, when the Sarfaq settlement was founded, and 1919, when i ...

in the northwest,

Saattorsuaq Island Saattorsuaq Island (old spelling: ''Sâtorssuaq'') is a small, uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. History The island was inhabited between 1881 and 1957, when a small Saattoq village of several families was ...

in the west, and Aappilattoq Island in the south.

Coastline

The island's highest point is a hill in the southern part of the island. Its coastline is undeveloped, with ''Iterlissuaq'' bay the only indentation in the north.

References

{{Upernavik Archipelago Uninhabited islands of Greenland Tasiusaq Bay Islands of the Upernavik Archipelago