Geography | |
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Location | Baffin Bay, Greenland |
Coordinates | 76°01′11″N 65°06′54″W / 76.0197°N 65.1149°W |
Administration | |
Greenland | |
Municipality | Avannaata |
Demographics | |
Population | uninhabited |
Meteorite Island ( Danish: Meteorit Ø) is an island in Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, off NW Greenland. [1]
The Cape York Meteorite fell thousands of years ago on the southern shore of this island. [2]
Meteorite Island is quite barren and desolate. It lies off the shore of Meteor Bay and is the largest of the group part of a small chain of coastal islands formed by Meteorite Island, Salve Island, George Island, Bushnan Island and a small islet. This chain of islands is located between Cape York and Cape Melville. [3]
The Inuit village of Savissivik is located at the southwestern end of Meteorite Island. [4] The settlement has a heliport, Savissivik Heliport and in 2010 it had 66 inhabitants. [5] In the Greenlandic language, the name of the settlement Savissivik means 'place of meteorite iron' (savik = iron/knife), [6] alluding to the numerous meteorites from 10,000 years ago that have been found in the area. [7] The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 100 tonnes before it exploded. [7] The iron from the meteorite attracted migrating Inuit from Arctic Canada. [7]
Geography | |
---|---|
Location | Baffin Bay, Greenland |
Coordinates | 76°01′11″N 65°06′54″W / 76.0197°N 65.1149°W |
Administration | |
Greenland | |
Municipality | Avannaata |
Demographics | |
Population | uninhabited |
Meteorite Island ( Danish: Meteorit Ø) is an island in Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, off NW Greenland. [1]
The Cape York Meteorite fell thousands of years ago on the southern shore of this island. [2]
Meteorite Island is quite barren and desolate. It lies off the shore of Meteor Bay and is the largest of the group part of a small chain of coastal islands formed by Meteorite Island, Salve Island, George Island, Bushnan Island and a small islet. This chain of islands is located between Cape York and Cape Melville. [3]
The Inuit village of Savissivik is located at the southwestern end of Meteorite Island. [4] The settlement has a heliport, Savissivik Heliport and in 2010 it had 66 inhabitants. [5] In the Greenlandic language, the name of the settlement Savissivik means 'place of meteorite iron' (savik = iron/knife), [6] alluding to the numerous meteorites from 10,000 years ago that have been found in the area. [7] The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 100 tonnes before it exploded. [7] The iron from the meteorite attracted migrating Inuit from Arctic Canada. [7]