Kingittorsuaq

Kingittorsuaq
	Aerial view of Kingittorsuaq
Waters	Upernavik Icefjord
Archipelago	Upernavik archipelago
Geographical location	72 ° 58 ′ N , 56 ° 13 ′ W Coordinates: 72 ° 58 ′ N , 56 ° 13 ′ W
length	3.7
width	2.7
Residents	uninhabited

Kingittorsuaq ( old spelling Kingigtorssuaĸ , German a large protruding rock) is a small, uninhabited island in the Upernavik district in the Avannaata Kommunia , Greenland . It is a small island in the south of Upernavik Archipelago in the southwest of Upernavik Icefjord , near the confluence with the Baffin Bay the fjord .

history

Runestone

Discovered by a hunter in 1824, the rune stone, dated between 1250 and 1333, is now in the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen .

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