Outer Kitsissut (, old spelling Ydre Kitsigsut), also known as Thorstein Islands or Torstein Islands, is an island group in the
Kujalleq
Kujalleq (Greenlandic language, Greenlandic: , ) is a municipality on the southern tip of Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. The administrative center of the municipality is in Qaqortoq (formerly called Julianehåb).
Creation
The munic ...
municipality in southern
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...
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Geography
Outer Kitsissut is located to the west-north-west of
Cape Desolation
Cape Desolation (, ), also known as 'Cape Brill', is a headland in southwest Greenland in the Kujalleq municipality.
Geography
The cape is located 16.66 km to the west-north-west of Cape Thorvaldsen near the modern settlements of Arsuk and Ivit ...
5 km from the shore. It is a compact cluster of small islets and rocks, with a length of 10 km and a width of 5 km. The highest and largest islet is Thorstein Island in the centre of the group, having a maximum length of about 0.7 km with a maximum height of 116 m.
The
Inner Kitsissut group lies 4 km to the northeast of the northern end of the cluster at the mouth of the
Coppermine Bay
Alanngorsuaq Fjord, also known as Coppermine Bay (), is a fjord in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. At the mouth of the fjord the coastline of southwestern Greenland turns to the east towards Qaqortoq.
Geography
Alanngorsuaq Fj ...
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GoogleEarth
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See also
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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 Indo-European languages, European language name.
Islands and archipelagoes
*Aaluik
*Aasiaat
*Achton Friis Is ...
References
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External links
Torstein Islands (Ydre Kitsissut) / Kujalleq Uninhabited islands of Greenland
Kujalleq