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Kaffeklubben Island or Coffee Club Island ((デンマーク語:Kaffeklubben Ø); (グリーンランド語:Inuit Qeqertaat)) is a small island lying off the northern tip of Greenland. It contains the northernmost point of land on Earth. ==Overview== Kaffeklubben Island is found at , and is from the geographic North Pole. It is placed north of the Frederick E. Hyde Fjord, about east of Cape Morris Jesup and west of Cape Bridgman, a little east of a central point along the northern coast of Greenland. Kaffeklubben Island is approximately in length, and about across at its widest point. The highest point is about above sea level.〔 The island was first sighted by the United States explorer Robert Peary in 1900; however, Kaffeklubben was not visited until 1921. It was then, when the Danish explorer Lauge Koch set foot on the island, that it received its name, after the coffee club in Copenhagen's . In 1969 a Canadian team calculated that its northernmost tip lies 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kaffeklubben Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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