Meteorite Island () is an island in Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, off NW Greenland.Hakluyt Island, Greenland
The Cape York Meteorite fell thousands of years ago on the southern shore of this island.The cultural history of the Innaanganeq meteorite
Geography Meteorite Island is quite barren and desolate. It lies off the shore of Meteor Bay and is the largest of the group part of a small chain of coastal islands formed by Meteorite Island, Salve Island, George Island, and a small islet. This chain of islands is located between Cape York and Cape Melville.1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet B-8, 3rd edition
The Inuit village of Savissivik is located at the southwestern end of Meteorite Island.Mapcarta - Savissivik The settlement has a heliport, Savissivik Heliport and in 2010 it had 66 inhabitants.Statistics Greenland In the Greenlandic language, the name of the settlement Savissivik means 'place of meteorite iron' (savik = iron/knife),quarkexpeditions.com alluding to the numerous meteorites from 10,000 years ago that have been found in the area. The Cape York meteorite is estimated to have weighed 100 tonnes before it exploded. The iron from the meteorite attracted migrating Inuit from Arctic Canada.
See also List of islands of Greenland
References
External links The small Inuit village of Savissivik on Meteorite Island. Northwest Greenland