Maniitsoq Ice Cap
Maniitsoq Ice Cap (old spelling: "Manîtsoq", or "Sukkertoppen isflade") is a ice cap in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland. Geography. There are no settlements in the vicinity of the ice cap. In the southeast, Maniitsoq ice cap is separated from the westward tongue of the Greenland ice sheet () by the narrow Kangerlussuatsiaup Qingua valley. The summit of the ice cap reaches between and . The maximum height is marked as a high summit in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts, although it does not rise above . In the south, several mountain glaciers drain it towards the  upper reaches of the Kangerlussuatsiaq Fjord. To the west, the ice cap is drained by the long Sermitsiaq Glacier. To the northwest, numerous mountain glaciers drain it towards Kangerlussuaq Fjord. To the northeast of the icesheet lies the wide highland of Angujaartorfiup Nunaa, home to herds of muskoxen, originally reintroduced in its northern part from the populations of the Northeast Greenland National Park.