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Appat Island

Island in Uummannaq Fjord, Greenland

Field	Value
name	Appat
image_name	Sketchmap-greenland-appat-island.svg
image_size	270px
image_caption	Location of Appat Island
map	Greenland
location	Uummannaq Fjord
coordinates
area_km2	180
length_km	23
width_km	11
highest_mount	Appat Qaqaa
elevation_m	1685
population	0 ( 2000 )
country	Greenland
country_admin_divisions_title	Municipality
country_admin_divisions	Avannaata

Appat Island (old spelling: Agpat) is an uninhabited island in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. At 211 km2, it is one of the larger islands in the Uummannaq Fjord system, located in its north-central part. It is the site of the former settlements of Ritenbenck and Qaqortuatsiaq.

Air Greenland helicopters approach Ukkusissat Heliport on the way from Uummannaq Heliport alongside the southern and western wall of Appat, to then pass above the narrow Appat Ikerat strait between Appat and a smaller, mountainous Salleq Island.

Geography

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Appat Island is separated from Uummannaq Island and Salliaruseq Island in the south by the central arm of the Uummannaq Fjord; from the Salleq Island in the west by the Appat Ikerat strait; from the Ukkusissat Peninsula in the north and northeast by the Torsukattak Strait. A small archipelago of low-lying skerries lies directly to the southeast of the island, with a small settlement of Saattut.

It is very mountainous, with precipitous walls falling from the glaciated summit plateau in all directions. The plateau (and the island itself) is bisected by the Naqellorssuaq valley. The highest point on the island is Appat Qaqaa (1685.9 m), a summit in the western part of the glaciated summit plateau. The coastline is undeveloped, apart from the Umiasuqasuup Ilua fjord at the southeastern end.

[[File:Appat-from-ukkusissat.jpg	thumb	300px	right	Appat Island (left) from the north]]	[[File:Appat-southern-wall.jpg	thumb	300px	The southern shore of the island mostly consists of a series of precipitous walls]]

Promontories

Name	Direction	Latitude N	Longitude W
Naakaleqaoq	Western Cape	70°53′45″	52°10′55″
Pania	Northern Cape	70°58′51″	52°02′35″
Uiffaq	Eastern Cape	70°52′32″	51°34′17″
Kangimut Sammissoq	Southern Cape	70°50′25″	51°40′50″

Mining

Qaqortuatsiaq, located on the northern coast of Appat near the shore of the Torsukattak Strait, is a former marble quarry, now abandoned. Mining activities in the area are likely to resume in the future, providing an economic lifeline to the communities of the Uummannaq region, keeping the relatively new Qaarsut Airport open.

Access

The island can be reached via individually chartered fishing boats from Saattut, the settlement on a skerry off the southeastern cape, or from Ukkusissat to the northwest. Package tourists visit the 'desert' on the cape as part of an organized tour from Uummannaq. Movement within the interior of Appat is restricted to mountaineering.

References

[http://www.ntnu.no/ub/formidl/utgivelser/til_opplysning/to_nr15.php Norwegian University of Science and Technology] {{webarchive. link. (2011-06-15)
Nuussuaq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992
[[GoogleEarth]]
{{cite enroute. 181. 2017. 58-59
[http://kanukoka.gl/media/1053_1080.pdf kanukoka.gl] {{webarchive. link. (2011-07-21)
(17 October 2007). "Lufthavne bliver ikke lukket". [[Sermitsiaq (newspaper).
1. 1. 21 Uummannaq Tourist Service]{{dead link. (October 2016)

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