Kaffeklubben Island

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Kaffeklubben Island or (Coffee Club Island) is a small island lying off the northern tip of Greenland, and it is considered to be the most northerly point of land on earth.

Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920)

Map of Greenland

Discovered by American, Robert Peary in 1900, the island is around 1 km in length. It is found at 83°40′N 29°50′W, 37 km east of Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland.

The island is north of the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord, between Cape Morris Jesup and Cape Bridgman, a little east of a central point along that northern coast of Greenland.

Kaffeklubben was first visited by the Danish explorer, Lauge Koch in 1921, who named it after the coffee club in Copenhagen's museum of mineralogy.

In 1969 a Canadian team calculated that its northernmost tip lies 750 m 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, most notably Oodaaq, 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.