Wandel Land is a 15.7 km (51,509.2 ft) nunatak

Nunatak

A nunatak is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier. The term is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present...

  in the Qaasuitsup

Qaasuitsup

Qaasuitsup is a new municipality in Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. As of January 2010 its population is 17,749. The administrative center of the municipality is in Ilulissat...

 municipality in northwestern Greenland

Greenland

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

. It is one of several nunataks in the Melville Bay

Melville Bay

Melville Bay , is a large bay off the coast of northwestern Greenland. Located to the north of the Upernavik Archipelago, it opens to the south-west into Baffin Bay. Its Kalaallisut name, Qimusseriarsuaq, means "the great dog sledding place"....

 region of Greenland, where the Greenland ice sheet

Greenland ice sheet

The Greenland ice sheet is a vast body of ice covering , roughly 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost long in a north-south direction, and its greatest width is at a latitude of 77°N, near its...

  drains into the bay alongside its entire length apart from an occasional nunatak.

Geography

Wandel Land is located on the mainland of Greenland in the northernmost part of Upernavik Archipelago

Upernavik Archipelago

Upernavik Archipelago is a vast archipelago of small islands in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland, on the coast of northeastern Baffin Bay...

. To the north, Greenland ice sheet drains into Alison Bay

Alison Bay

Alison Bay is a bay in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland. The bay is a tributary bay of Melville Bay, and is located in the northern part of Upernavik Archipelago, between Kiatassuaq Island in the southwest and the mainland of Greenland in the northeast.- Geography :Alison bay...

 via Nunatakassaup Sermia

Nunatakassaup Sermia

Nunatakassaup Sermia is a tidewater glacier in the Qaasuitsup municipality on the northwestern shore of Greenland. It drains the Greenland ice sheet westwards into Melville Bay. The glacier front is located between the Nunatakassak nunatak in the north, and the Wandel Land nunatak in the south....

 glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

. To the southwest, the nunatak is bounded by the iceberg

Iceberg

An iceberg is a large piece of ice from freshwater that has broken off from a snow-formed glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water. It may subsequently become frozen into pack ice...

-choked Alison Bay, while a small inlet of the latter, Iterlassuaq, separates Wandel Land from another, smaller nunatak in the southeast. Alison Bay separates Wandel Land from a large Kiatassuaq Island

Kiatassuaq Island

Kiatassuaq Island is an uninhabited island in the Melville Bay region of the Upernavik Archipelago in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- History :...

 in the southwest.

There are several distinct summits on Wandel Land. The highest point is an unnamed 981 m (3,218.5 ft) peak in the central-western part of the massif, neighboring the 744 m (2,440.9 ft) Naujarsuit Qaqqat mountain from the west.