Kaffeklubben Island

Kaffeklubben Island or Coffee Club Island (; ) is a small island lying off the northern tip of Greenland.  It contains the northernmost point of land on Earth. 

Discovery
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.  When the Danish explorer Lauge Koch set foot on the island, 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 is  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, such as Oodaaq, 83-42, and ATOW1996, although there is debate as to whether such 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. 

Geography

Kaffeklubben Island is at  and is  from the geographic North Pole.  The island lies off Cape James Hill,  northwest of Bliss Bay, about  east of Cape Morris Jesup, a little east of a central point along the northern coast of Greenland.  

Kaffeklubben Island is approximately  long, and about  across at its widest point.  The highest point is about  above sea level. 

Vegetation
Despite the harsh environment, vegetation grows on Kaffeklubben island – not only various mosses, liverworts, and lichens, but also flowering plants: Saxifraga oppositifolia (purple saxifrage) and Papaver radicatum (arctic poppy). 

See also
List of islands of Greenland
ATOW1996, also claimed as the most northerly land area. 
83-42, another potentially northernmost point of land
List of northernmost items

References

Category:Islands of Denmark
Category:Extreme points of Earth
Category:Uninhabited islands of Greenland