Ammarqua Strait Ammarqua Strait Ammarqua Strait (old spelling: "Angmarqua") is a strait in the southern part of the Upernavik Archipelago in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. The strait separates Nutaarmiut Island from four large islands in the east, Uilortussoq Island and Saninngassoq Island in the north; Nako Island and Akuliaruseq Island in the south. The Eqalugaarsuit Suulluat Fjord opens into Ammarqua Strait immediately to the east of the southern cape, to the north of Kangeq Peninsula off the mainland of Greenland. At the southern mouth of the strait at the confluence with Baffin Bay are two islands: the Ineraq Island and
Baffin Island Similarly, Qikiqtarjuaq is situated on the Broughton Island which located near the northern coast of the Cumberland Peninsula. There are discussions to start the Baffinland Iron Mine, an iron ore mine with a 21-year life, at Mary River, and to build a railway and a port to transport the ore. This may create a temporary mining community there. Baffin Island has both year-round and summer visitor wildlife. On land, examples of year-round wildlife are barren-ground caribou, polar bear, Arctic fox, Arctic hare, lemming and Arctic wolf. Barren-ground caribou herds that migrate in a limited range from northern Baffin island down