{{Short description|Island in Greenland}} {{about||the fjord|Nanuuseq Fjord}} {{Infobox islands | name = Nanuuseq<br>''Nanûseq'' | image_name = | image_caption = | image_size = | local_name = | local_name_link = | nickname = | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 10 | mapframe-stroke-width = 2 | pushpin_map_caption = Location on Greenland | pushpin_map = Greenland | location = North Atlantic Ocean<br>Southern Greenland | coordinates = {{coord|60|28|N|43|7|W|type:isle|display=inline,title}} | archipelago = | total_islands = | major_islands = | area_km2 = | highest_mount = | elevation_m = 670 | country = Greenland | country_admin_divisions_title = Municipality | country_admin_divisions = Kujalleq | country_admin_divisions_title_1 = | country_admin_divisions_1 = | country_admin_divisions_title_2 = | country_admin_divisions_2 = | country_capital_city = | country_largest_city = | country_largest_city_population = | country_leader_title = | country_leader_name = | settlements = | population = 0 | population_as_of = | density_km2 = | ethnic_groups = }} '''Nanuuseq''', also known as ''Nanûseq'' or ''Nanusek'' is an uninhabited island in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland.
==Geography== Nanuuseq is a coastal island, although it is also considered a peninsula owing to it almost being attached to the mainland shore of King Frederick VI Coast.<ref name="sailing">''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 99</ref> located off the southeastern coast of Greenland between the mouth of Lindenow Fjord on its southern side and the mouth of Nanuuseq Fjord —formerly known as Oyfjord— to the north. Its length is {{convert|2.6|km|mi|0|abbr=off}} and its maximum width {{convert|1000|m|ft|0|abbr=off}}.<ref>GoogleEarth</ref>
Although Nanuuseq is relatively small, its highest point reaches {{convert|670|m|ft|0|abbr=off}} in height.<ref name="sailing"/> The island's coast is deeply indented and the sound separating it from the peninsula on the mainland to the west is very narrow. Queen Louise Island lies {{cvt|7.7|km}} to the south, on the other side of the mouth of Lindenow Fjord.<ref name="mapcarta">{{cite web|url=http://mapcarta.com/19189186|title=Nanûseq|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=11 April 2016}}</ref>
==History== Peder Olsen Walløe reached this island in the 18th century while navigating along the then unmapped southeastern coast.
Until recent times the Southeast-Greenland Inuit visited the area around Nanusek during hunting trips up and down the coast. Fridtjof Nansen wrote about them towards the end of the 19th century: {{quote|''The woman-boat in question had in this manner spent three years on the passage from Umivik, and would no doubt take pretty nearly as long to return. The other woman-boat that was passing southwards from Cape Bille got as far as Nanusek, about 65 miles from the trading-settlements west of Cape Farewell, and there went into winter quarters;''<ref>Fridtjof Nansen, ''Eskimo Life'', p. 86</ref>}}
==Bibliography == * {{cite book | author-link = Fridtjof Nansen | last = Nansen | first = Fridtjof | title = Eskimoliv | url = https://archive.org/details/eskimoliv02nansgoog | publisher = Aschehoug | location = Kristiania | year = 1891 | isbn = }}Tr. as [https://archive.org/search.php?query=Eskimo%20Life%20creator%3Anansen ''Eskimo Life''], 1893.
==See also== *List of islands of Greenland
==References== {{Reflist}}
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