Torsukattak Strait (old spelling: ''Torssukátak'') is a strait in Avannaata 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 i ...

Geography

Torsukattak Strait is located in the southern part of the

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 ...

, in the group between Nunavik Peninsula in the south, and Upernavik Icefjord in the north.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 The strait separates

Akuliaruseq Island Akuliaruseq Island is an uninhabited island in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography Location within the archipelago Akuliaruseq Island is located in the southern part of the Upernavik Archipelago, in the group bet ...

in the west from

Amarortalik Island Amarortalik Island is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. The name of the island means "''the place of wolves''" in the Greenlandic language. Geography Location within the archipelago Amarortalik Island ...

in the east. In the north, the strait empties into a small ''Kangerluarsuk Fjord'' off Koch's Land on the mainland of Greenland. In the south, it flows into

Eqalugaarsuit Sulluat Fjord Eqalugaarsuit (old spelling: ''Eqalugârssuit'') is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland, located southeast of Qaqortoq and northwest of Alluitsup Paa. Its population was 49 in 2020. Until January, 2009, the settlement ...

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{{coord, 72, 34, N, 55, 00, W, scale:500000, display=title Straits of the Upernavik Archipelago