Nunatakassaup Sermia (Tasiusaq Bay)

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Nunatakassaup Sermia
Location Upernavik Archipelago, Greenland
Coordinates 73°15′N55°05′W / 73.250°N 55.083°W / 73.250; -55.083 Coordinates: 73°15′N55°05′W / 73.250°N 55.083°W / 73.250; -55.083
Terminus Tasiusaq Bay
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Nunatakassaup Sermia (Tasiusaq Bay, Upernavik Archipelago)

Nunatakassaup Sermia (old spelling: Nunatakavsaup Sermia) is a tidewater glacier in Avannaata municipality on the northwestern shore of Greenland. It drains the Greenland ice sheet southwestwards into Tasiusaq Bay. [1] The glacier front is located to the southeast of the Nunatarsuaq nunatak, and to the north of the Qassersuaq Peninsula. [1] Alanngorsuup Sermia, a sibling glacier to the south, drains the icesheet into the same point at the inner end of Tasiusaq Bay.

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References

  1. 1 2 Upernavik, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992