Kaffeklubben Island


Kaffeklubben Island or Coffee Club Island is an 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 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. It 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, including various mosses, liverworts, and lichens, and also flowering plants: Saxifraga oppositifolia and Papaver radicatum.