(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 28 - A group of scientists announced that they had accidentally discovered the northernmost island in the world, off the coast of Greenland. The BBC reports it.
Last July an expedition of Danish-Swiss researchers reached by helicopter what they thought was the island of Oodaaq, known since 1978 as the northernmost island. But when they checked their position they realized they were 800 meters further north, on another island only 60x30m. This, they found, is the strip of land closest to the North Pole.
Expedition leader Morten Rasch said the island will be called Qeqertaq Avannarleq, which means 'the northernmost island' in the Greenland language. (HANDLE).