Raffles Island
Raffles Island is an uninhabited island located approximately 4 km to east of the Sparrebugt bay, Liverpool Land, about 20 km north-east of the town of Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland in the Scoresby Sund area.Description
It was named by William Scoresby Jr. in 1822 as Raffles Island in honour of Reverend Thomas Raffles, a prominent independent minister.
The alternative native Greenlandic names of Agpalik or Appalik are also in use. It is also known with the Danish names of Raffle Ø or Raffles Ø.
The highest point of the island lies at 550m above the sea level. The island hosts a little lake, called Raffles Sø.
Its mean temperature is almost always close to 0 degrees Celsius.
Gull colonies have been recorded on the island.
