Qassersuaq Peninsula (old spelling: ''Qagsserssuaq'') is a mainland

peninsula A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on all ...

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 ...

, located in the south-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 ...

.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, 1:250.000, Tage Schjøtt, 1992

Geography

The peninsula is of triangular shape, with the base adjacent to 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 ...

( kl, Sermersuaq), south of the

Alanngorsuup Sermia Alanngorsuup Sermia (old spelling: ''Alángorsûp Sermia'') is a tidewater glacier in Avannaata municipality on the northwestern shore of Greenland. It drains the Greenland ice sheet northwestwards into Tasiusaq Bay.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage ...

glacier. The distance from the ''Qaassorsuaq'' promontory in the west at , to the innermost unglaciated part of the mainland is . In the northwest, the inner waterways of southern

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 ...

weakly indent the peninsula with the ''Nuniaat Bay''. In the south, the Qassersuit Saqqaa strait separates the peninsula from a chain of larger islands of the archipelago, bounding

Upernavik Icefjord Upernavik Icefjord (also: ''Ikeq'', ''Aappilattup Ikera'', da, Upernavik Isfjord) is a fjord in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography The long fjord flows to the northwest between two chains of islands, emptying into Baf ...

from the northeast:

Maniitsoq Island Maniitsoq Island is an island in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland.''Maniitsoq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 Geography The island is located on the shores of Davis Strait, separated from Sermersuut Island in the north by the ...

Puugutaa Island Puugutaa Island is an island of Greenland. It is located in Tasiusaq Bay in the Upernavik Archipelago.GoogleEarth See also *List of islands of Greenland The following is an alphabetical list of the islands of Greenland. Many of these islands ha ...

Sisuarissut Island Sisuarissut Island is an island of Greenland. It is located in Tasiusaq 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

Qaneq Island Qaneq Island is an island of Greenland. It is located in Tasiusaq Bay in the Upernavik Archipelago Upernavik Archipelago is a vast coastal archipelago in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, off the shores of northeastern Baffi ...

. The peninsula is very mountainous, culminating in several glaciated summits. The highest, unnamed peak in the center of the peninsula reaches . Other named summits include Qassersuit at in the center, ''Issumaarsuaq'' at in the north, and Nuniaat Qaqqarsua at in the west.

References

{{coord, 73, 06, N, 55, 20, W, scale:1000000, display=title Tasiusaq Bay Peninsulas of the Upernavik Archipelago