‘By accident, we actually fell down on something that appears to be the northernmost place on Earth’: Scientists stumble upon world’s northernmost island
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 700 km to the north and of the surrounding seabed, fishing rights and shipping routes exposed by melting ice due to climate change.
"Everybody was happy that we found what we thought was Oodaaq island," said Swiss entrepreneur Christiane Leister, creator of the Leister Foundation that financed the expedition. Though it was exposed by shifting pack ice, the scientists said the island's appearance now was not a direct consequence of global warming, which has been shrinking Greenland's ice sheet.
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