Extreme points of the Arctic

This is a list of the extreme points of the Arctic, the points of Arctic lands that are farther to the north than any other location classified by continent and country, latitude and longitude, and distance to the North Pole. The list is sorted from north to south.

Name Country Region Coordinates Distance from Pole Remarks
km mi
Kaffeklubben Island, Peary LandDenmark (Greenland)North America83°40′N 29°50′W707 439northernmost point of land on Earth
Cape Morris Jesup, Peary LandDenmark (Greenland)North America83°37′39″N 32°39′52″W712 442Greenland proper
Roosevelt Range, Peary LandDenmark (Greenland)North America83°20′0″N 35°0′0″W720 450Northernmost mountain range on Earth
Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island, NunavutCanadaNorth America83°06′41″N 69°57′12″W769 478all lands
Cape Fligely, Rudolf Island, Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk OblastRussiaEurope81°50′35″N 59°14′22″E911 566northernmost point of Eurasia, including Europe
Arctic Cape, Komsomolets Island, Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk KraiRussiaAsia81°13′N 95°15′E981 610all lands, northernmost point of Asia
Rossøya, Sjuøyane, SvalbardNorwayEurope80°49′45″N 20°24′0″E1,024 636northernmost point of Western Europe
Cape Chelyuskin, Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk KraiRussiaAsia77°44′N 104°15′E1,370 850mainland, northernmost point of mainland Eurasia and the northernmost point of any mainland continent
Murchison Promontory, Boothia Peninsula, NunavutCanadaNorth America71°59′55″N 94°32′45″W2,014 1,251northernmost point of mainland North America
Point Barrow, AlaskaUnited StatesNorth America71°23′20″N 156°28′45″W2,078 1,291all lands
Knivskjellodden, Magerøya, FinnmarkNorwayEurope71°11′9″N 25°40′51″E2,101 1,306Norway proper, northernmost point of Continental Europe (excluding remote islands)
North Cape, Magerøya, FinnmarkNorwayEurope71°10′21″N 25°47′40″E2,102 1,306Norway proper, in popular belief referred to as the northernmost point of Europe
Cape Nordkinn, Gamvik, FinnmarkNorwayEurope71°08′02″N 27°39′00″E2,106 1,309northernmost point of Continental Europe
Vaygach Island, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Arkhangelsk OblastRussiaEurope70°27′17″N 59°03′38″E2,181 1,355Russia proper
Rybachiy Peninsula, Murmansk OblastRussiaEurope69°57′N 31°57′E2,239 1,391mainland

Highest point

Lowest point

See also

Notes
  1. Gunnbjørn Fjeld is the highest point on the Island of Greenland, Kalaallit Nunaat, the Kingdom of Denmark, and the entire Arctic.

References
  1. "Gunnbjørn Fjeld". Summits of the World. peakbagger.com. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
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