Ukkusissat (mountain)
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Ukkusissat is a 772 m (2,532.8 ft) mountain in the Sermersooq
Sermersooq
Sermersooq is a new municipality in Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. It is home to Nuuk , the capital of Greenland, and is the most populous municipality in the country, with 21,232 inhabitants as of January 2010...

 municipality in southwestern 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 to the southeast of Nuuk Airport
Nuuk Airport
Nuuk Airport is an airport in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. The airport is a technical base and focus city for Air Greenland, the flag-carrier airline of Greenland, linking the capital with several towns in western and south-western part of the country, including the airline hub at Kangerlussuaq...

, an airport
Airport
An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 in Nuuk
Nuuk
Nuuk, is the capital of Greenland, the northernmost capital in North America and the largest city in Greenland. Located in the Nuup Kangerlua fjord, the city lies on the eastern shore of the Labrador Sea and on the west coast of Sermersooq. Nuuk is the largest cultural and economic center in...

, the capital of Greenland. It is the terminus of a long mountain range of a peninsula jutting into Nuup Kangerlua
Nuup Kangerlua
Nuup Kangerlua is a long, fjord in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. It is the longest fjord on the Labrador Sea coast of Greenland, and one of the longest in the inhabited part of the country....

, the longest fjord in southwestern Greenland, to the north of Kangerluarsunnguaq Fjord
Kangerluarsunnguaq Fjord
Kangerluarsunnguaq Fjord is a small fjord in the Sermersooq municipality in southwestern Greenland. "Nuuk Basic", a research station, erected in 2008, is located on the fjord shores.- Geography :...

splitting the peninsula into two.
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