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Kingittorsuaq Island

Island of Greenland

Field	Value
name	Kingittorsuaq
image_name	Kingittorsuaq-island.jpg
image_size	300px
image_caption	Aerial view of Kingittorsuaq Island
map	Greenland
archipelago	Upernavik Archipelago
location	Greenland
coordinates
length_km	3.7
width_km	2.7
country	Greenland
country_admin_divisions_title	Municipality
country_admin_divisions	Avannaata

Kingittorsuaq Island (old spelling: Kingigtorssuaq) is a small, uninhabited island in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is a small island in the southern part of the Upernavik Archipelago, located on the southwestern shores of Upernavik Icefjord, near the mouth of the latter where it opens into Baffin Bay. The name of the island means "a large protruding rock" in the Greenlandic language.

History

Main article: Kingittorsuaq Runestone

The Kingittorsuaq runestone (old spelling: Kingigtorssuaq runestone) dating from the Middle Ages was found in 1824 on the highest point of the island, in a group of three cairns forming an equilateral triangle. The stone is now located at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.

References

''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992
Enterline, James Robert. (2002). "Erikson, Eskimos & Columbus: Medieval European Knowledge of America". JHU Press.

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