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Søren Norby Islands ( da, Søren Norbyes Øer), named after Søren Norby, is an uninhabited archipelago close to the shores of Eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq municipality.


Geography

The archipelago is located on the southern side of
Pikiulleq Pikiulleq is a bay in eastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality. Geography Pikiulleq Bay is located at the northern end of King Frederick VI Coast, north of the Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula and to the north of the Søren Norby ...
Bay. It includes a long coastal island and a great number of offshore islets and rocks, the largest of which is Pros Mund Island. The main island, Jens Munk Island is located north of the
Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula ( da, Fridtjof Nansens Halvø) is a peninsula in the King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is a part of the Sermersooq municipality. Geography The Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula is limited to the northeast by a ...
, separated from the mainland by a 45 km long sound named Kagssortoq (Kattertooq), which has a width ranging between 0.7 and 6.5 km. The southern part of the island has an
ice cap In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than are termed ice sheets. Description Ice caps are not constrained by topographical features ...
. Jens Munk Island has an area of 470.7 km2 and a shoreline of 185.9 kilometres. Its southernmost point is Cape Lovelorn, projecting from a steep 280 m high headland at the northern limit of
Umivik Bay Umivik Bay ( da, Umivik Bugt), also known as ''Umiivik'' and ''Umerik'', is a bay in King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality. Unlike the jagged and forbidding appearance of most fjord systems i ...
.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 103


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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Soren Norby Islands Uninhabited islands of Greenland Sermersooq