Alison Bay
| Alison Bay | |
|---|---|
| Kullorsuup Kangerlua (Greenlandic) | |
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| Location | Upernavik Archipelago |
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| Ocean/sea sources | Baffin Bay |
| Basin countries | Greenland |
| Max. length | 20.5 km (12.7 mi) |
Alison Bay (Greenlandic: Kullorsuup Kangerlua) is a bay in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. The bay is a tributary bay of Melville Bay, and is located in the northern part of Upernavik Archipelago, between Kiatassuaq Island in the southwest and the mainland of Greenland in the northeast.
Geography
[edit | edit source]Alison Bay is 20.5 km (12.7 mi) long. Part of the southern Melville Bay region, the bay is frozen for most of the year. In the northeast, it is bounded by the Wandel Land nunatak, culminating in an unnamed 931 m (3,054 ft) peak. Iterlassuaq, a small indentation of the bay separates Wandel Land in the north from Qaqqasungnarsuaq − another, smaller nunatak, culminating in an unnamed 510 m (1,670 ft) peak.[1]
A small unnamed glacier tongue of Greenland ice sheet drains the latter into the innermost part of the bay, east of the opening of the Ikerasaa Strait. The strait flows west-south-westward between Kiatassuaq Island in the north, and Sanningassorsuaq Peninsula in the south. The entrance to the strait is split into two channels, with a small Milissua Island straddling the middle.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Upernavik Avannarleq, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992
External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
- 1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet B-8
