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Kaffeklubben Island or The Coffee Club Island (; ) is a small island lying off the northern tip of Greenland
Greenland

Greenland is a member country of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago....
. It is considered to be the most northerly point of land on earth
Extreme points of the world

This is a list of lists of extreme points of Earth, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other locations on the landmasses, continents or country....
.

Kaffeklubben Island is found at , and is 707 kilometres (440 mi) from the geographic North Pole
North Pole

The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface....
. It is placed north of the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord, about 37 kilometres (23 mi) east of Cape Morris Jesup
Cape Morris Jesup

Cape Morris Jesup is the northernmost point of mainland Greenland at and is 711.8 km from the North_Pole#Geographic_North_Pole. Robert Peary reached the cape in 1892, believing it to be the extreme points of the world, although it was later found to lie slightly to the south of the northernmost tip of Kaffeklubben Island....
 and west of Cape Bridgman, a little east of a central point along the northern coast of Greenland.






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Kaffeklubben Island or The Coffee Club Island (; ) is a small island lying off the northern tip of Greenland
Greenland

Greenland is a member country of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago....
. It is considered to be the most northerly point of land on earth
Extreme points of the world

This is a list of lists of extreme points of Earth, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other locations on the landmasses, continents or country....
.

Kaffeklubben Island is found at , and is 707 kilometres (440 mi) from the geographic North Pole
North Pole

The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface....
. It is placed north of the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord, about 37 kilometres (23 mi) east of Cape Morris Jesup
Cape Morris Jesup

Cape Morris Jesup is the northernmost point of mainland Greenland at and is 711.8 km from the North_Pole#Geographic_North_Pole. Robert Peary reached the cape in 1892, believing it to be the extreme points of the world, although it was later found to lie slightly to the south of the northernmost tip of Kaffeklubben Island....
 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
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 explorer Robert Peary
Robert Peary

Robert Edwin Peary was an United States explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole....
 in 1900, Kaffeklubben was not actually visited until 1921. It was then, when the Danish
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 explorer Lauge Koch
Lauge Koch

Lauge Koch was a renowned leader of 24 Denmark government expeditions to Greenland. He is a central character in The Lauge Koch Controversy, an international and intra-national conflict....
 set foot on the island, that it received its name, after the coffee club in Copenhagen
Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,153,615 . Copenhagen is situated on the Islands of Zealand and Amager....
's museum of mineralogy
Mineralogy

Mineralogy is an Earth Science focused around the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical properties of minerals. Specific studies within mineralogy include the processes of mineral origin and formation, classification of minerals, their geographical distribution, as well as their utilization....
.

In 1969 a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 team calculated that its northernmost tip lies 750 metres (2,450 ft) farther north than Cape Morris Jesup
Cape Morris Jesup

Cape Morris Jesup is the northernmost point of mainland Greenland at and is 711.8 km from the North_Pole#Geographic_North_Pole. Robert Peary reached the cape in 1892, believing it to be the extreme points of the world, although it was later found to lie slightly to the south of the northernmost tip of Kaffeklubben Island....
, 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
Oodaaq

Oodaaq or Oodap Qeqert is a bank of gravel and silt northeast of Greenland that has been considered by some to be the extreme points of the world on earth....
, 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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