Tuttorqortooq 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

Tuttorqortooq Island is located 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 north-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...

, at the mouth of Kangerlussuaq Icefjord

Kangerlussuaq Icefjord

Kangerlussuaq Icefjord is a fjord in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :...

, which separates it from Mernoq Island

Mernoq Island

Mernoq Island is an uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- History :With brief intervals of no permanent settlement, Mernoq Island was inhabited between 1891, when the Kuuk settlement was founded, and 1972, when it was abandoned...

 in the northeast. In the east, the northern tip of Qallunaat Island

Qallunaat Island

Qallunaat Island is an uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- History :Qallunaat Island was briefly inhabited between 1898, when the Sarfaq settlement was founded, and 1919, when it was abandoned...

 is separated from Tuttorqortooq by the narrow Qaqqakassaup Ikerasaa strait, widening into a bay to the southwest between the two islands. To the west, a small, rocky Horse Head Island

Horse Head Island

Horse Head Island is an uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :Horse Head Island is an outlying island in Tasiusaq Bay, an indentiation of Baffin Bay in the north-central part of Upernavik Archipelago. The closest island is Tuttorqortooq Island in...

 buffers the island from the open waters of 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...

. The island is mountainous, with an unnamed 587 m (1,925.9 ft) peak in the central-western part of the island.

Promontories

Name	Direction	Latitude N	Longitude W
Anernilik	Northern Cape	73°42′30″	56°25′00″
Inussugaarsuk	Southern Cape	73°37′13″	56°35′00″
Itillissuaq	Southwestern Cape	73°36′42″	56°49′15″
Tuttorqortuup Nuussua	Western Cape	73°39′45″	56°56′45″