Coffee Club Island
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| Waters | Wandelsee , Arctic Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 83 ° 39 '42 " N , 30 ° 36' 36" W | |
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| length | 1 km | |
| width | 400 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Kaffeklubben Island ( Danish Kaffeklubben Ø , Greenlandic : Inuit Qeqertaat ) is a small, on the northern tip of Greenland situated island . It is generally considered to be the northernmost island on earth.
The approximately 1 km long island is located at 83 ° 39 '42 "north latitude and 30 ° 36' 36" west longitude, 37 km east of Cape Morris Jesup in Greenland . It was discovered in 1900 by Robert Edwin Peary . It was first entered in 1921 by the Danish researcher Lauge Koch and named after the coffee club in the Museum of Mineralogy in Copenhagen .
In 1969 a Canadian team calculated that the northern tip of the island is 750 m further north than Cape Morris Jesup and is therefore the most northerly solid land. In fact, Kaffeklubben Island, with its latitude 83 ° 39 ′ 42 ″ north, is 0 ° 2 ′ 3 ″ - which is a distance of 3.80 km - closer to the North Pole than Cape Morris Jesup (83 ° 37 ′ 39 ″ north latitude). The distance from the island to the North Pole is 705.58 km.
Later, some gravel banks a little further north were found near the Kaffeklubben Island, including Oodaaq , ATOW1996 , RTOW2001 and Ultima Thule 2008 . However, it is controversial whether these can really be regarded as permanent land areas and islands, since such sand and gravel banks are usually not very permanent, are covered by drift ice or washed over by the sea.
Web links
- Coffee clubs. Top of the World? on arcticthule.com (English)