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Kingittorsuaq Island

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Kingittorsuaq Island
Kingittorsuaq Island. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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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.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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