Researchers in Greenland discovered a tiny island off the coast of the country last month they say is the world's northernmost point of land.
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"It was not our intention to discover a new island," polar explorer Morten Rasch told Reuters. "We just went there to collect samples." The scientists initially thought they had arrived at Oodaaq, an island discovered by a Danish survey team in 1978. Only later, when checking the exact location, they realized they had visited another island 780 metres northwest.
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The small island, which is yet to be named, measures roughly 30 metres (100 feet) across and a peak of about three metres (10 feet), consists of seabed mud as well as soil and rock left behind by moving glaciers. The team said they would recommend it be named "Qeqertaq Avannarleq", which means "the northernmost island" in Greenlandic.
