Sigguup Nunaa
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 Location of Sigguup Nunaa and other geographical features in the area |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ N , 54 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ W | |
| Waters 1 | Baffin Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Atlantic Ocean | |
Sigguup Nunaa (translated Land of the Snout ; Danish Svartenhuk Halvø ), also Nunavik Peninsula , is a large uninhabited peninsula in the Avannaata Kommunia in Greenland . It is divided into two cultural and geographical regions: the Uummannaq Fjord region in the southeast and the Upernavik archipelago in the north.
Rocks and sediments on the peninsula date from the Cretaceous and Paleocene Periods .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nunavik , Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992
- ↑ Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 14, 26-49 ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
