Meteorite Island (Danish: Meteorit Ø) is an island in Baffin Bay, in Avannaata municipality, off NW Greenland.
[1] The Cape York Meteorite fell thousands of years ago on the southern shore of this island.
[3] The Inuit village of Savissivik is located at the southwestern end of Meteorite Island.
[5] In the Greenlandic language, the name of the settlement Savissivik means 'place of meteorite iron' (savik = iron/knife),[6] alluding to the numerous meteorites from 10,000 years ago that have been found in the area.
[7] The iron from the meteorite attracted migrating Inuit from Arctic Canada.