Anoritooq 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...

  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

Anoritooq is located on the mainland of Greenland in the northern 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...

. To the north, Greenland icesheet drains into Sugar Loaf Bay

Sugar Loaf Bay

Sugar Loaf Bay is a bay in the Upernavik Archipelago in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is an indentiation of northeastern Baffin Bay...

 via Cornell Glacier

Cornell Glacier

Cornell Glacier is a tidewater glacier in the Qaasuitsup municipality on the northwestern shore of Greenland. It drains the Greenland ice sheet westwards into Nuussuup Kangia, a fjord inlet of Sugar Loaf Bay, to the east of the base of Nuussuaq Peninsula....

 separating it from the base of Nuussuaq Peninsula

Nuussuaq Peninsula (Upernavik Archipelago)

Nuussuaq Peninsula is a mainland peninsula in northwestern Greenland, located at the northern end of Upernavik Archipelago, approximately to the south of Melville Bay...

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The nunatak has several summits, with the highest reaching 1108 m (3,635.2 ft). Due to the glacial retreat, another nunatak, Orsugissap Qaqqarsua

Orsugissap Qaqqarsua

Orsugissap Qaqqarsua is a nunatak of the Greenland ice sheet in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :...

, culminating in a 800 m (2,624.7 ft) summit, is now conjoint with Anoritooq.