Isunngua

Isunngua is a broad highland landscape in central-western Greenland, just west of the Greenland Ice Sheet and east of Kangerlussuaq. Shaped by ice, it combines tundra, increasingly barren ground near the ice sheet, low hills, and many freshwater and meltwater lakes rich in glacial silt. The dry polar continental climate and surrounding glaciers give the area a strongly ice-sculpted character, and it is also known as a calving site for reindeer. A thirty-kilometer gravel road built in 2000 to support cold-weather automotive testing later became a tourism route, ending at the ice margin after ice movement destroyed the section laid onto the inland ice.

Qeqqata · Greenland