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Disko Island

Disko Island
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About Disko Island

Disko Island is a large island in Baffin Bay, off the west coast of Greenland. It has an area of 8,578 km2 (3,312 mi2), making it the second largest island of Greenland, and one of the 100 largest islands in the world. It is part of the Qeqertalik municipality, although it lies off the coast of southern Avannaata municipality, with mainland Qeqertalik a little to the south.

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Another one is that the mountains are quite flat on it, so they look like desks. Desco Island. Excuse me. Desco Island. The most common is probably that it was named after a guy called Marmaduke. He was an English explorer and whaler And that it was originally called Duckies Island Oh, my dearie. Duckos Island and then Dicko's Island and then Disco's Island and eventually Disco Island. Wow. Okay. It's not the next Magaloof.

from No Such Thing As A Finger Fish, 2022-08-11 at 00:56:47 · read transcript

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Coordinates: 69.7500, -53.5000

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