Queen Louise Island (Danish: Dronning Louise Ø) or Kissarsiitilik[1] is an uninhabited island in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland.

Queen Louise Island

Native name: Kissarsiitilik
Location of Queen Louise Island
Geography
Location	North Atlantic Ocean Southern Greenland
Coordinates	60°22′N 43°16′W
Area	46.1 km2 (17.8 sq mi)
Highest elevation	781 m (2562 ft)
Highest point	Nuussuaq
Administration
Greenland
Municipality	Kujalleq
Demographics
Population	0

The island was named Dronning Louise Ø after Queen Louise of Sweden (1851–1926), wife of King Frederick VIII of Denmark.

Geography

Queen Louise Island is a coastal island located off King Frederick VI Coast in southeastern Greenland between two narrow fjords on the southern side of the mouth of Lindenow Fjord.[2] Its length is 14 kilometres (9 miles) and its maximum width 5 kilometres (3 miles).

Queen Louise Island is mountainous, Nuussuaq the tallest of its three main peaks reaching 781 metres (2,562 feet) in height. The island's coast is deeply indented and off its easternmost point lies the smaller island of Kanajoorartuut. Nanuuseq Island lies 7.7 km to the north, on the other side of the mouth of Lindenow Fjord.[3]

See also

• List of islands of Greenland

References

External links

• Ketilidian structure and the rapakivi suite between Lindenow Fjord and Kap Farvel, South-East Greenland