Sermersuut Island (old spelling: ''Sermersût'', da, Hamborgerland) is an uninhabited island in the
Qeqqata
Qeqqata (, da, Centrum, lit=Centre) is a municipality in western Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The municipality was named after its location in the central-western part of the country. Its population is 9,378 as of January 2020. Th ...
municipality in western
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 ...
.
[''Maniitsoq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992]
Geography
The island is located on the shores of
Davis Strait
Davis Strait is a northern arm of the Atlantic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. To the north is Baffin Bay. The strait was named for the English explorer Jo ...
, separated from
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 ...
in the south by the
Ammarqoq Sound, and from the mainland in the east by the
Ikamiut Kangerluarsuat
Ikamiut is a settlement in the Qeqertalik municipality in western Greenland, located on a small island in the Aasiaat Archipelago on the southern shores of Disko Bay. Its population was 86 in 2020.
Transport
Air Greenland serves the village as ...
fjord.
Sermersuut
/ref> The island is very mountainous and glaciated in the north, with several distinct mountain peaks. The highest point on the island is .
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Davis Strait
Uninhabited islands of Greenland
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