Qeqertarsuaq, meaning "Large Island", is the name of several other places in Greenland.

It is also the name of an abandoned fishing village located near the eastern end of the island.

[3] Aligned from east to west, the islands lie off the Inglefield Fjord, between the Murchison Sound to the north and the Hvalsund to the south.

[4] Herbert Island is located closest to the mouth of the Inglefield Fjord.

An account of life on the island in the 1970s is given by Marie Herbert in her 1973 book The Snow People, after she lived for a year in the (now abandoned) village of Qeqertarsuaq with her husband and young daughter.