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Søren Norby Islands ( Danish : Søren Norbyes Øer ), named after Søren Norby , is an uninhabited archipelago close to the shores of Eastern Greenland . Administratively it is part of the Sermersooq municipality.

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4-505: The archipelago is located on the southern side of Pikiulleq Bay. It includes a long coastal island and a great number of offshore islets and rocks, the largest of which is Pros Mund Island . The main island, Jens Munk Island is located north of the Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula , separated from the mainland by a 45 km long sound named Kagssortoq (Kattertooq), which has a width ranging between 0.7 and 6.5 km. The southern part of

8-527: Is part of the Sermersooq municipality . Pikiulleq Bay is located at the northern end of King Frederick VI Coast , north of the Fridtjof Nansen Peninsula and to the north of the Søren Norby Islands . Past the northeastern end of the bay, at the southern limit of King Christian IX Land , the coast of eastern Greenland bends in a northeastward direction that stays quite regular until Cape Brewster . In

12-663: The inner part of the bay there are small fjords, the Havhesten Bay in the south, the Køge Bay (Ikeq) in the west, and the Uvkusigssaqarfik fjord in the north, past the Pamialluk headland. All these fjords have glaciers at their heads. Off the coast, on the southern side of the mouth of the bay lies small Putugua island. In the NE part of the bay there are larger islands, the largest of which

16-400: The island has an ice cap . Jens Munk Island has an area of 470.7 km and a shoreline of 185.9 kilometres. Its southernmost point is Cape Lovelorn , projecting from a steep 280 m high headland at the northern limit of Umivik Bay . This Greenland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pikiulleq Pikiulleq is a bay in eastern Greenland . It

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