Saattorsuaq Island (old spelling: ''Sâtorssuaq'') is a small, 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 ...
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 ...
.
History
The island was inhabited between 1881 and 1957, when a small
Saattoq village of several families was scattered between the island, and the Saattoq skerry just off the northern coast.
Geography
Saattorsuaq 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 settl ...
, 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 ...
. The island is separated from
Nuuluk Island in the northeast,
Aappilattoq Island in the southwest,
Nutaarmiut Island
Nutaarmiut Island (old spelling: ''Nutârmiut'') is an uninhabited[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 ...](_blank)
in the northwest by the inner waterways of Tasiusaq Bay.
[''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992]
References
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Tasiusaq Bay
Islands of the Upernavik Archipelago
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