geo.wikisort.org - IslandNaajaat Island (old spellings: Naujât, Naujat, Naajat) is a small island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, home to the Naajaat settlement.
For a settlement of the same name, see Naajaat.
Naajaat Naajaat settlement on the eastern coast |
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Location | Greenland |
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Coordinates | 73°08′40″N 55°49′00″W |
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Archipelago | Upernavik Archipelago |
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Greenland |
Municipality | Avannaata |
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Geography
Naajaat Island is located in Tasiusaq Bay, in the South-Central part of Upernavik Archipelago. The inner waterways of the bay separate it from Innaarsuit Island in the west, and from the mainland Qassersuaq Peninsula in the southeast. The island is part of a small group of larger skerries, trailed by Naajaat Kangilleq in the northeast, and Sanningassorsuaq in the southeast. The narrow channels between the three islands provide good harbourage for the settlement.[1]
References
- Upernavik, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992
Upernavik Archipelago, Greenland |
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Bays | |
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Fjords |
- Eqalugaarsuit
- Kangerluarsuk
- Kangerlussuaq (Kangeq Peninsula)
- Kangerlussuaq Icefjord
- Nasaussap Saqqaa
- Nuussuup Kangia
- Saqqarsuaq
- Sullua
- Tasersuatsiaq
- Upernavik Icefjord
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Glaciers |
- Alanngorsuup Sermia
- Cornell
- Giesecke
- Hayes
- Illullip Sermia
- Kjer
- Nunatakassaup Sermia
- Nunatakassaup Sermia (Tasiusaq Bay)
- Upernavik
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Headlands |
- Cape Shackleton
- Nuussuup Nuua
- Wilcox Head
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Islands | Melville Bay | |
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Inussulik Bay | |
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Sugar Loaf Bay | |
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Tasiusaq Bay | |
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Baffin Bay | |
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Mountains/Nunataqs | |
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Peninsulas | |
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Straits |
- Akornat
- Ammarqua
- Appaalissiorfiup Ikerasaa
- Ikerasaa
- Ikerasak
- Ikerasakassak
- Ikerasassuaq
- Qassersuit Saqqaa
- Saqqarlersuup Sullua
- Simiuttap Ikerasaa
- Sisuarissut
- Torsukattak
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Towns/Settlements |
- Aappilattoq
- Kangersuatsiaq
- Kullorsuaq
- Innaarsuit
- Naajaat
- Nutaarmiut
- Nuussuaq
- Tasiusaq
- Upernavik
- Upernavik Kujalleq
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