Oodaaq

Oodaaq is a bench of gravel, sand and vase, on the North-East of the Greenland, and which was at one time considered as the emerged ground most Scandinavian of the Ground.

Geography

Oodaaq - or was - is located by, at only 600 km in the south of the North pole and at 1.360 m in the north of the island of Kaffeklubben. When it was discovered, it measured 50 m by 50 m for a maximum height of one meter.

History

Oodaaq was discovered in 1978 when a Danish forwarding led by Uffe Petersen lands in the helicopter on the island of Kaffeklubben in order to check that this island was more in north than the most septentrional piece of Greenland. This confirmed, a member located a black spot in north and the team flew away towards the bench, naming it Oodaaq in remembering the Inuit which accompanied Robert Peary in his voyage towards the north pole.

Oodaaq was again visited the following year; the team confirmed the presence of the bench and some rollers. Another forwarding ériga small a cairn of rollers the same year.

In 1996, a forwarding led by John Jancik discovered several other benches, of which one at least was slightly more in north that Oodaaq, but not Oodaaq in itself, in any case at the place estimated in 1978 (another bench seemed to correspond to the description of Oodaaq, but it was located differently). The bench more on north, by, was confirmed in 2001.

In July 2003, a group of explorers led by Dennis Schmitt found a 35 m length bench by 83° 42' NR. Its permanence is always prone to debate, even if Refusals Schmitt foot-note the presence of Lichen S with slow growth.

In this area, the gravel benches seldom permanent, are eroded by an ice-barrier moving very quickly or are submerged by the Arctic Ocean. They are generally not regarded as sufficiently solid constituting a stable dry land (and thus to claim with the ground record more in north of the sphere).

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Dansk Polarcenter : New Islands, New Northernmost Not off Land one Earth Discovered off Northern Coast off Greenland

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