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Kaffeklubben Island or
The Coffee Club Island (; ) is a small island lying off the northern tip of
Greenland. It is considered to be
the most northerly point of land on earth.
Kaffeklubben Island is found at, and is 707 kilometres (440 mi) from the geographic
North Pole. It is placed north of the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord, about 37 kilometres (23 mi) east of
Cape Morris Jesup and west of Cape Bridgman, a little east of a central point along the northern coast of Greenland. Kaffeklubben Island is approximately 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) in length.
First sighted by the
American explorer
Robert Peary in 1900, Kaffeklubben wasn't actually visited until 1921. It was then, when the
Danish explorer
Lauge Koch set foot on the island, that it received its name, after the coffee club in
Copenhagen's museum of
mineralogy.
In 1969 a
Canadian team calculated that its northernmost tip lies 750 metres (2,450 ft) farther north than
Cape Morris Jesup, thus claiming its record as the most northerly point on land.
Since then, several
gravel banks have been found to the north, most notably
Oodaaq, although there's debate as to whether Oodaaq or these other gravel banks should be considered for the record since they're rarely permanent, being regularly swallowed by the moving ice sheets, shifting, or becoming submerged in the ocean.
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