Illorsuit Island
island in Greenland
Illorsuit Island (Greenlandic: Illorsuip qeqertaat, Danish: Ubekendt Ejland) is an island in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.
Geography
The island is pear-shaped, and at 403 km2 (155.6 mi2), it is the second-largest island in the Uummannaq Fjord system, located to the east of its mouth, between Sigguup Nunaa peninsula in the north and Nuussuaq Peninsula in the south.
Settlement
The former settlement of Illorsuit was the only settlement on the island, located on its northeastern coast. The settlement was abandoned in 2018 following a severe tsunami in June 2017.
“Illorsuit Island” enters the record as island in Greenland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Illorsuit, Island and island can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3796464. Authority coordinates are 71.150, -53.683. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2017.
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This entry incorporates text from “Illorsuit Island” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.