Kattertooq

Kattertooq, meaning 'where there is much blue ice' in the Greenlandic language,) is a fjord of the King Frederick VI Coast in the Sermersooq municipality, southeastern Greenland.GoogleEarth Geography Kattertooq is located north of the . It is oriented in a NW/SE direction and has a tributary fjord branching eastwards 25 km from its mouth. To the east it opens into the North Atlantic Ocean with Uiivaq island on the northern and the entrance of Sehested Fjord (Uummannap Kangertiva) and Griffenfeld Island on the southern side of its mouth.

This fjord has a large, active glacier at its head, the Skinfaxe Glacier, which has its terminus in the fjord shortly after its confluence with the Tjasse Glacier joining it from the west.

History Uivaq is a Paleo-Eskimo archaeological site near the entrance to a sound on Kattertooq's northern coast.

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Kattertooq

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