Tuttorqortooq Island Tuttorqortooq Island Tuttorqortooq Island (old spelling: "Tugtorqortôq") is an uninhabited island in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. Tuttorqortooq Island is located in Tasiusaq Bay, in the north-central part of Upernavik Archipelago, at the mouth of Kangerlussuaq Icefjord, which separates it from Mernoq Island in the northeast. In the east, the northern tip of Qallunaat Island is separated from Tuttorqortooq by the narrow "Qaqqakassaup Ikerasaa" strait, widening into a bay to the southwest between the two islands. To the west, a small, rocky Horse Head Island buffers the island from the open waters of Baffin Bay. The island is mountainous,
Baffin Island is also a year-round resident of Baffin Island. Unlike the gray wolf in southern climes, Arctic wolves often do not hunt in packs, although a male-female pair may hunt together. In the water (or under the ice) the year-round visitors are mainly the ringed seal. The ringed seal lives off-shore within of land. During the winter, it makes a number of breathing holes through ice up to thick by visiting each one often, and keeping the hole open and free from ice. In March, when a female is ready to whelp, she will enlarge one of the breathing holes that