The settlement is located in the northern shore of the Siorapaluup Kangerlua (Robertson Fjord).

[1] It has a population of 43[2] who speak the Inuktun language of the Polar Inuit as well as the Kalaallisut dialect of Greenlandic.

There is good hunting in the area of the settlement, and the cliffs around it function as breeding grounds for dovekie (UK English: little auk) (Alle alle) and the thick-billed murre (UK English: Brünnich's guillemot) (Uria lomvia).

Siorapaluk has an electrical power plant, direct satellite radio and TV-broadcasting, a well stocked store and telephone service.

Air Greenland operates settlement flights to Qaanaaq Airport and to Savissivik Heliport via Pituffik Space Base.