Key facts
- Location
- Baffin Bay
- Area
- 8,578 km (3,312 sq mi)
- Area rank
- 84th largest in world , 2nd largest in Greenland
- Length
- 160 km (99 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 1,919 m (6296 ft)
- Highest point
- Pyramiden
- Municipality
- Qeqertalik
- Largest settlement
- Qeqertarsuaq (pop. 839)
- Population
- 1,100
- Pop density
- 0.13/km (0.34/sq mi)
- Ethnic groups
- Inuit
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Danish Realm
- Located in
- Qeqertalik
- Capital
- Qeqertarsuaq
- Population
- 892
- Area
- 8612
- Elevation
- 1919
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Body of water
- Baffin Bay
- Image
- Qeqertarsuaq.JPG
- Length
- 160
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- Commons category
- Disko Island
- native label
- Qeqertarsuaq
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- time of discovery or invention
- 1773-00-00
- different from
- discothèque
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Disko Island (Greenlandic: Qeqertarsuaq, Danish: Diskoøen) is a large island in Baffin Bay, off the west coast of Greenland. It has an area of 8,578 km (3,312 mi), making it the second largest island of Greenland (behind the main island), and one of the 100 largest islands in the world. It is part of the Qeqertalik municipality, although it lies off the coast of southern Avannaata municipality, with mainland Qeqertalik a little to the south.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Disko Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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