Sullorsuaq Strait is a strait on the western coast of 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

It separates Nuussuaq Peninsula

Nuussuaq Peninsula

Nuussuaq Peninsula is a large peninsula in western Greenland.- Geography :The waters around the peninsula are that of Baffin Bay. To the south and southwest the peninsula is bounded by Disko Bay, an inlet of Baffin Bay. It is separated from Qeqertarsuaq Island by Sullorsuaq Strait which...

 in the northeast from Qeqertarsuaq Island

Disko Island

Disko Island is a large island in Baffin Bay, off the west coast of Greenland. It has an area of , making it the second largest island of Greenland and one of the 100 largest islands in the world...

 in the southwest. The strait waterway connects inner Disko Bay

Disko Bay

Disko Bay is a bay on the western coast of Greenland. The bay constitutes a wide southeastern inlet of Baffin Bay.- Geography :To the south the coastline is complicated with multiple waterways of skerries and small islands in the Aasiaat archipelago...

 in the southeast with Baffin Bay

Baffin Bay

Baffin Bay , located between Baffin Island and the southwest coast of Greenland, is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. It is connected to the Atlantic via Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea...

 in the northwest. Qeqertarsuatsiaq Island

Qeqertarsuatsiaq Island

Qeqertarsuatsiaq Island is an isolated and uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality, in Baffin Bay off the western shore of Greenland.- Geography :...

 is located in the northeastern mouth of the strait, where it opens into Baffin Bay. At the southeastern end, the large Alluttoq Island is located in the outlet of the strait, at the confluence with Disko Bay.

History

Archaeological excavations in Qilakitsoq

Qilakitsoq

Qilakitsoq is an archaeological site on Nuussuaq Peninsula, on the shore of Uummannaq Fjord in northwestern Greenland. Formally a settlement, it is famous for the discovery of eight mummified bodies in 1972.- Archaeological finds :...

 on the northeastern shore revealed the existence of an ancient Arctic culture later named the Saqqaq culture

Saqqaq culture

The Saqqaq culture was a Paleo-Eskimo culture in Greenland.-Timeframe:...

 that inhabited the area of west-central Greenland between 2500 BCE and 800 BCE.

Settlement

Saqqaq

Saqqaq

Saqqaq is a settlement in the Qaasuitsup municipality, in western Greenland. Founded in 1755, it had 188 inhabitants in 2010. The name of the village means "the sunny side" in Greenlandic.- Geography :...

 is the only settlement in the area, located in the southern part on the shores of Nuussuaq Peninsula. The former coal mining

Coal mining

The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United States,...

 settlement of Qullissat

Qullissat

Qullissat is a former settlement in the Qaasuitsup municipality in western Greenland. It was a coal mining town founded to exploit the national resources of Disko Island...

was located on the coast of Disko Island. The entire coast is now uninhabited.