North of Greenland, a team of Arctic researchers from Denmark made a discovery of what they believed to be the world’s northernmost landmass; a yet-to-be-named island that could soon be swallowed up by sea waters.
When they discovered the island in July they thought they had reached Oodaaq which is an island located about 700 km south of the North Pole.
‘We were informed that there had been an error on my GPS which had led us to believe that we were standing on Oodaaq island,’ said the head of the mission, Morten Rasch from Copenhagen University’s department of geosciences and natural resources management.
The team of scientists then soon realised that they had discovered a new island 780 metres north of Oodaaq.
The university says the small island is approximately 30 by 60 metres in size and rises to about four metres above sea level.
The small island which primarily consists of small mounds of silt and gravel may be the result of a major storm that, with the help of the sea, gradually pushed material from the seabed together until an island formed.
The team of scientists do not believe that the island will exist for a very long time.
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