COPENHAGEN: Scientists have discovered what is believed to be the world’s northernmost landmass a yet-to-be-named island north of Greenland that could soon be swallowed up by seawater.
Scientists last month set foot on a tiny island off the coast of Greenland which they say is the world s northernmost point of land and was revealed by shifting pack ice.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Scientists last month set foot on a tiny island off the coast of Greenland which they say is the world's northernmost point of land and was revealed by shifting pack ice. The discovery comes as a battle is looming among Arctic nations the United States, Russia, Canada, Denmark and Norway for control of the North Pole some.
The scientists initially thought they had arrived on an island located by a Danish survey team back in 1978, before realising that the island they had stumbled upon is.