Qaarsorsuatsiaq Island (old spelling: ''Qaersorssuatsiaq'') is an

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

Qaarsorsuatsiaq Island is located in the outer belt of islands 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 south-central part of Upernavik Archipelago. The inner waterways of Tasiusaq Bay separate it from

Innaarsuit Island Innaarsuit Island (old spelling: ''Ivnârssuit'') is an island in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, home to the Innaarsuit settlement. Geography Innaarsuit Island is located in the outer belt of islands in Tasiusaq Bay, in ...

in the east. Several

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 ...

buffer the western coast of the island.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 The highest point on the island is Cuthbert Peak in the west, reaching .

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{{Upernavik Archipelago Tasiusaq Bay Islands of the Upernavik Archipelago