Morris Jesup

 

(jĕs'əp) , northernmost land point in the world, N Greenland. At lat. 83°39′N, it is 440 mi (708 km) from the North Pole. U.S. explorer Robert Peary reached the cape in 1892.

Cape Morris Jesup is the northernmost point of mainland Greenland at 83°37′39″N, 32°39′52″W and is 711.8 km (384 nm / 442 miles) from the geographic North Pole. Robert Peary reached the cape in 1892, believing it to be the northernmost point in the world, although it was later found to lie slightly to the south of the northernmost tip of Kaffeklubben Island.

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