Sanningassorsuaq Peninsula (old spelling: Sáningassorssuaq) is a mainland peninsula

Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic and Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands"....

 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...

, located at the northern end 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...

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Geography

The Sanningassorsuaq Peninsula is 20.8 km (12.9 mi) long, and 13.2 km (8.2 mi) wide. The highest point is an unnamed summit at 539 km (334.9 mi) in its central part.

The base of the peninsula is a nunatak

Nunatak

A nunatak is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier. The term is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present...

 located at 74°26′30"N 56°07′00"W, and rising to 460 m (1,509.2 ft) above the Greenland ice sheet

Greenland ice sheet

The Greenland ice sheet is a vast body of ice covering , roughly 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost long in a north-south direction, and its greatest width is at a latitude of 77°N, near its...

  reaching the sea level to the south and north of the nunatak.

The peninsula has a west-east orientation, jutting into Inussulik Bay

Inussulik Bay

Inussulik Bay is a bay in the Upernavik Archipelago in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :The bay is located in the northern part of Upernavik Archipelago, between Kiatassuaq Island in the north and Nuussuaq Peninsula in the south...

 to the west. It is separated from the Kiatassuaq

Kiatassuaq Island

Kiatassuaq Island is an uninhabited island in the Melville Bay region of the Upernavik Archipelago in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- History :...

 and Milissua islands in the north by the narrow Ikerasaa Strait

Ikerasaa Strait

Ikerasaa Strait is a strait in the Upernavik Archipelago in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. The strait separates Kiatassuaq Island in the north from the mainland Sanningassorsuaq Peninsula in the south...

. In the south, the innermost inlet of Inussulik Bay full of iceberg

Iceberg

An iceberg is a large piece of ice from freshwater that has broken off from a snow-formed glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water. It may subsequently become frozen into pack ice...

s calved by the Illullip Sermia

Illullip Sermia

Illullip Sermia is a tidewater glacier in the Qaasuitsup municipality on the northwestern shore of Greenland. It drains the Greenland ice sheet southwestwards into Inussulik Bay, an inlet of Baffin Bay. The glacier front is located between the Sanningassorsuaq Peninsula in the north, and the base...

 glacier separates the peninsula from the Illulissuaq Peninsula

Illulissuaq Peninsula

Illulissuaq Peninsula is a mainland peninsula in northwestern Greenland, located in the northern part of Upernavik Archipelago- History :...

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Promontories

Name	Direction	Latitude N	Longitude W
(none)	Northern Cape	74°28′42″	56°13′47″
Naajarsuit	Southern Cape	74°23′56″	56°32′45″
Sanningassorsuup Nuua	Western Cape	74°24′04″	56°48′01″