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Alanngorsuup Sermia

Coordinates: 73°09′30″N 55°00′00″W / 73.15833°N 55.00000°W / 73.15833; -55.00000
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Alanngorsuup Sermia
LocationUpernavik Archipelago, Greenland
Coordinates73°09′30″N 55°00′00″W / 73.15833°N 55.00000°W / 73.15833; -55.00000
TerminusTasiusaq Bay
Alanngorsuup Sermia is located in Upernavik Archipelago
Alanngorsuup Sermia
Alanngorsuup Sermia (Upernavik Archipelago)

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

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  1. ^ a b Upernavik, Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992