Kingittorsuaq island near Upernavik - Viking Cairns - Rune stone was found

Kingittorsuaq Island in the southern part of the Upernavik Archipelago  means "a large protruding rock" in the Greenlandic.

Kingittorsuaq runestone dating from the Middle Ages was found in 1824 on the highest point of the island, in a group of three cairns forming an equilateral triangle. The stone is now located at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. 

The Viking navigators reached further north than was thought, sailing through the Davis Strait, on the West coast of Greenland.
The late 12th century 'Historia Norvegiae' tells us of one of the first encounters of norse hunters with eskimo people in east Greenland:
'On the other side of Greenland, toward the North, hunters have found some little people whom they call skraeling; (...) they have no iron at all; they use missiles made of walrus tusks and sharp stone for knives.'
The Runestone of Kingittorsuaq dates likely from the mid-13th century. It was found in 1824 at the highest point of the island, a group of three piles of stones (cairns) forming an equilateral triangle.