Paornivik Island is an uninhabited
island
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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 ...
.
Geography
The
horseshoe-shaped
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Paornivik 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. It is sandwiched between
Qullikorsuit Island
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 ...
in the north − from which it is separated by the narrow ''Paorniviup Tunua'' strait − and
Mernoq Island
Mernoq Island is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
History
With brief intervals of no permanent settlement, Mernoq Island was inhabited between 1891, when the Kuuk settlement was founded, and 1972, whe ...
in the southwest. To the east, inner waterways of Tasiusaq Bay separate it from an unnamed
nunatak
A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. ...
on the mainland of Greenland.
[''Upernavik Avannarleq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992]
See also
*
List of islands of Greenland
The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many of these islands have both a Kalaallisut language name and a European language name.
Islands and archipelagoes
* Aaluik
* Aasiaat Archipelago
* Achton Friis Islands
* A ...
References
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Tasiusaq Bay
Islands of the Upernavik Archipelago
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