Uunartoq Qeqertaq

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Uunartoq Qeqertoq ( Kalaallisut, in English Warming Iceland ( " warming island " or " heat island " ) ) is an uninhabited island east of Greenland. It is located about 650 km north of the Arctic Circle.

Until recently, the island was still connected by means of a glacier to the main island and is therefore considered to be a peninsula. In the course of those due to the global warming melting glaciers connecting the ice is, however, disappeared between 2002 and 2005.

As First the New York Times had reported in its edition of January 16, 2007 about the fact that it has now been discovered that Uunartoq Qeqertoq is an independent island.

Controversy

The "climate skeptic " scientist Patrick J. Michaels doubts that " Warming Iceland " had been recognized only recently as an island, and is in reference to a map from a 1957 published book about Greenland, on the Uunartoq Qeqertoq is shown as an island.