Tasiusaq Island is an 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...

, home to the Tasiusaq

Tasiusaq, Qaasuitsup

Tasiusaq is an island settlement in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. It had 248 inhabitants in 2010...

 settlement.

Geography

Tasiusaq Island is located in the outer belt of islands in Tasiusaq Bay

Tasiusaq Bay

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

, in the central 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...

. In the northwest, the Ikerasak Strait

Ikerasak Strait

Ikerasak Strait is a strait in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :The strait is located in central Tasiusaq Bay. It separates Uigorlersuaq Island in the north from Paagussat Island in the south, and from Tasiusaq Island in the east.- References :...

 separates it from Uigorlersuaq Island

Uigorlersuaq Island

Uigorlersuaq Island is an uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :...

. The inner waterways of the bay separate it from Aappilattoq Island

Aappilattoq Island (Tasiusaq Bay)

Aappilattoq Island is an uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is one of two islands of the same name in the Upernavik Archipelago.- Geography :...

 and Anarusuk Island

Anarusuk Island

Anarusuk Island is an uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :Anarusuk Island is located in Tasiusaq Bay, in the north-central part of Upernavik Archipelago, on the shores of the inner reaches of Kangerlussuaq Icefjord, which in the northeast...

 in the northeast. The Simiuttap Ikerasaa

Simiuttap Ikerasaa

Simiuttap Ikerasaa is a strait in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :The strait is located in central Tasiusaq Bay. With a small Simiutaq skerry in the middle, the strait separates Tasiusaq Island in the west, from the mountainous Qaqaarissorsuaq Island in the...

 strait, with a small skerry

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....

 in the middle separates Tasiusaq from the mountainous Qaqaarissorsuaq Island

Qaqaarissorsuaq Island

Qaqaarissorsuaq Island is an uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :...

 in the east. The outer waterways of Tasiusaq Bay separate the island from small skerries and Kangaarsuk Island

Kangaarsuk Island

Kangaarsuk Island is an uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :...

 in the south, from Illunguit Island in the southwest, and from Paagussat Island

Paagussat Island

Paagussat Island is an uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :Paagussat Island is located in the outer belt of islands in Tasiusaq Bay, in the central part of Upernavik Archipelago. Ikerasak Strait separates it from Uigorlersuaq Island in the...

 in the west.

Tasiusaq Island is mountainous in its center. Tunullersuaq

Tunullersuaq

Tunullersuaq is a mountain of Greenland. It is located in the Upernavik Archipelago....

is the highest mountain, at 535 m (1,755.2 ft). The Tasiusaq village is located in the lower part of the island, at the shores of one of the small bays indenting the coastline in the northwest, near Nuunnguaq, the western cape.

Promontories

Name	Direction	Latitude N	Longitude W
Uillut	Northern Cape	73°24′44″	56°01′10″
(none)	Northeastern Cape	73°22′40″	55°48′50″
Sagfiorfik	Southern Cape	73°17′28″	55°57′55″
Inatsiait	Southwestern Cape	73°17′53″	56°08′15″
Nuunnguaq	Western Cape	73°21′57″	56°04′58″