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Itissaalik Island

Island in Avannaata, Greenland

Field	Value
name	Itissaalik Island
image_name	Sugar-Loaf-Bay-inner.jpg
image_size	300px
image_caption	Itissaalik Island
map	Greenland
archipelago	Upernavik Archipelago
location	Greenland
coordinates
country	Greenland
country_admin_divisions_title	Municipality
country_admin_divisions	Avannaata

Itissaalik Island (old spelling: Itivsâlik) is a small, uninhabited island located in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.

History

Itissaalik Island was inhabited, although not continuously. Between 1904 and 1909, a small settlement of the same name (also spelled Itussaalik) was established on the island. It was repopulated again in 1911, and finally abandoned in 1957, during the post-war consolidation phase in northwestern Greenland.

Geography

Itissaalik Island is located in the northern part of Upernavik Archipelago, in the northern part of Sugar Loaf Bay, an indentation of Baffin Bay. The island is part of a chain of small islands off the southern coast of Nuussuaq Peninsula. Other islands in the chain include Sugar Loaf Island, Timilersua Island, and Saarlia to the southwest of Itissaalik − and Paornarqortuut and Inussulikassak to the northeast. The closest settlement is Nuussuaq, approximately 10 km to the west-north-west of the island.

References

Petersen, Robert. (2003). "Settlements, kinship and hunting grounds in traditional Greenland: A comparative study of local experiences from Upernavik and Ammassalik". Danish Polar Center.
''Upernavik Avannarleq'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992

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