 The fjord has a north-to-south orientation in its northern part, to then turn midway to the south-west-south at approximately .While the shores of the northern part separate peninsulas of the mainland of Greenland, the southern, progressively wider half of the fjord separates the large Ammassalik Island in the west from islands of the eponymous Ammassalik Archipelago in the east and southeast, including the largest, Apusiaajik Island.The fjord is joined by narrow waterways with other waterbodies in the region