Kaffeklubben Island
| Native name: Oodaap Qeqertaa | |
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 Kaffeklubben Island
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| Location | Arctic Ocean |
| Coordinates | 83°39′45″N 30°36′50″W / 83.66250°N 30.61389°WCoordinates: 83°39′45″N 30°36′50″W / 83.66250°N 30.61389°W |
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| Population | uninhabited |
Kaffeklubben Island or Coffee Club Island (Danish: Kaffeklubben Ø; Greenlandic: Inuit Qeqertaat) is a small island lying off the northern tip of Greenland. It may contain the northernmost point of land on Earth.
Kaffeklubben Island is found at 83°39′45″N 30°36′50″W / 83.66250°N 30.61389°W and is 713.5 kilometres (443.3 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 0.7 kilometres (0.43 mi) in length, and about 300 metres (980 ft) across at its widest point. The highest point is about 30 metres (98 ft) above sea level.
The first recorded sighting of the island was made by the United States explorer Robert Peary in 1900; however, Kaffeklubben was not 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 the University of Copenhagen Geological Museum.
In 1969 a Canadian team calculated that its northernmost tip lies 750 metres (2,460 ft) farther north than Cape Morris Jesup, thus claiming its record as the most northerly point on land.
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