Is it possible that there are still undiscovered places on our planet?
After traveling there by mistake, a group of Danish researchers claimed to have discovered the world's northernmost island, which lies a kilometer away from Greenland. In July, the party was scheduled to collect scientific bacteria samples on the island of Oodag, but they ended up in the wrong location.
It was only a month after they returned that they realized they had taken the wrong samples, that their GPS had failed, and that they had discovered a new Island. They plan to call the island “Qeqertaq Avannarleq” (Greenlandic for “northernmost island”), and it is estimated to be 30 by 60 meters in size, with moraine, gravel, and marine mud that could have accumulated after a violent storm.
Morten Rasch, the expedition's leader, and a geographer at the University of Copenhagen, wrote to Motherboard in an email. “We weren't looking for new islands. That was not among the expedition's scientific goals.” And even though they have discovered it, they are uninterested in the new island. They went there to collect scientific samples of the bacteria in the neighborhood.
Images by: Julian Charriere and Henrik Lassen
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