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Akia Island

Island in northwestern Greenland

Field	Value
name	Akia
image_name	Akia.jpg
image_size	300px
image_caption	Akia Island seen from the north
map	Greenland
map_caption	Location off the west coast of Greenland
archipelago	Upernavik Archipelago
location	Greenland
coordinates
length_km	5.8
width_km	5.8
country	Greenland
country_admin_divisions_title	Municipality
country_admin_divisions	Avannaata

Akia Island () is an uninhabited island in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. The name of the island means "turned on its side" in the Greenlandic language.

Geography

Aerial view of the interior of Akia Island

Akia Island is located in the outer belt of islands in the Upernavik Archipelago, in the group between the Upernavik Icefjord in the north, and Nunavik Peninsula in the south, approximately 500 m to the southeast of Upernavik Island, on the other side of a small waterway separating the islands.

In the east and south, another small waterway separates Akia from a larger Qaarsorsuaq Island. In the west, several small skerries such as Avannarleq (), Qeqertasussuk (), and Aorrussaq () buffer the western coast from the open waters of Baffin Bay.

Pear-shaped and hilly, the island culminates in an unnamed 220 m peak in the central-northern part of the island. There are many small ponds and lakes in the interior of the island.

Promontories

Name	Direction	Latitude N	Longitude W
Pamiua ()	Western Cape	72°45′41″	56°12′52″
(none)	Northern Cape	72°47′22″	56°03′17″
Sarpinat	Eastern Cape (not the easternmost point)	72°45′58″	56°02′36″
Umiartorfik	Southern Cape	72°44′06″	56°06′56″

References

''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992

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