Kiataussaq Island is an uninhabited island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 in the Qaasuitsup

Qaasuitsup

Qaasuitsup is a new municipality in Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. As of January 2010 its population is 17,749. The administrative center of the municipality is in Ilulissat...

 municipality in northwestern Greenland

Greenland

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

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Geography

Kiataussaq Island is the last island of any size in the northernmost part of Upernavik Archipelago

Upernavik Archipelago

Upernavik Archipelago is a vast archipelago of small islands in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland, on the coast of northeastern Baffin Bay...

, located approximately 8.5 km (5.3 mi) to the west of the Nunatarsuaq

Nunatarsuaq

Nunatarsuaq is a nunatak in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :Nunatarsuaq is one of several nunataks in the Melville Bay region of Greenland, where the Greenland ice sheet drains into the bay alongside its entire length apart from an occasional nunatak...

 nunataq on the mainland of Greenland. To the north of the island, only small skerries

Skerry

A skerry is a small rocky island, usually defined to be too small for habitation. It may simply be a rocky reef. A skerry can also be called a low sea stack....

 of diminishing size dot the surface of southern Melville Bay

Melville Bay

Melville Bay , is a large bay off the coast of northwestern Greenland. Located to the north of the Upernavik Archipelago, it opens to the south-west into Baffin Bay. Its Kalaallisut name, Qimusseriarsuaq, means "the great dog sledding place"....

. The island is rocky, culminating in an unnamed 420 m (1,378 ft) peak in the western part of the island.

Skerries

Kiataussaq Island is surrounded by several skerries in the north and west: collectively known as Kiataussaq Skerries :

• Qaarusulik
• Qeqertannguit
• Natsiarsiorfik
• Nanotralikassak
• Qilalukiarfik
• Uvingassoq
• Qamutikassait