| Kaffeklubben Island |
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Discovered by Robert Peary in 1900 , the island is around 1 km in length, and found at , 37 km east of Cape Morris Jesup , Greenland. First visited by the Danish explorer Lauge Koch in 1921 , he named it after the coffee club in Copenhagen 's museum of Mineralogy , and in 1969 a Canadian team calculated that its northernmost tip lies 750 m further 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 , though there is debate as to whether Oodaaq Island or these other gravel banks should be considered for the record as they are rarely permanent, being regularly swallowed by the moving ice sheets, or becoming submerged in the ocean. National Geographic flag on Kaffeklubben Island |
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