KAFFEKLUBBEN ISLAND

'Kaffeklubben Island' or ('Coffee Club Island') (, ) is a small island lying off the northern tip of Greenland, and it is considered to be 'the most northerly point of land on earth'.
Kaffeklubben Island is found at , and is 707.4 km (382 nm / 440 miles) from the geographic North Pole. It is placed north of the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord, about 37 km 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 km in length.

First sighted by the American Robert Peary in 1900, Kaffeklubben was not actually visited until 1921. It was then, when the Danish explorer Lauge Koch set foot on the island, that it received its name, which was after the coffee club in Copenhagen's museum of mineralogy.
In 1969 a Canadian team calculated that its northernmost tip lies 750 m 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 is debate as to whether Oodaaq or these other gravel banks should be considered for the record since they are rarely permanent, being regularly swallowed by the moving ice sheets, shifting, or becoming submerged in the ocean.

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★ National Geographic flag on Kaffeklubben Island

★ Great Circle Calculator