Illulissuaq Peninsula

The Illulik settlement, perched on the western cape of the peninsula, was very small, and consisted of only several families.

Illulik was temporarily abandoned for the first time in 1909, due to relative isolation from other settlements of the region in early 20th century.

The settlement was repopulated in 1914, and unlike small, insular villages in Inussulik Bay and Sugar Loaf Bay to the south, it survived the post-war consolidation phase in northwestern Greenland.

[2] The base of the peninsula, shared with the neighboring Nuussuaq Peninsula, is a nunatak located at 74°22′30″N 56°00′00″W / 74.37500°N 56.00000°W / 74.37500; -56.00000, and rising to 280 m (920 ft) above the Greenland ice sheet (Greenlandic: Sermersuaq) reaching the sea level to the south and north of the nunatak.

The fjord nearly splits the peninsula into two halves, with the western half separated from the nunatak in the east by a low, narrow isthmus.