ATOW1996
ATOW1996 was one of the places formerly considered as a potential northernmost documented points of land on Earth. It was a small patch of gravel about 10 metres long and one metre high, located several miles north of Cape Morris Jesup in northern Greenland at.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Oodaaq and 83-42.
Oodaaq
Islet
Oodaaq or Oodap Qeqertaa was a bank of gravel and silt northeast of Greenland. During the first modern survey and mapping of northern Greenland in 1978, which had a side goal to position both Cape Morris Jesup and Kaffeklubben Island, the small c.
83-42
Islet
83-42 was a rocky ice floe in the Arctic Ocean. It is also sometimes referred to as Eklipse 0, or Schmitt’s Island, after its discoverer, Dennis Schmitt. 83-42 is situated 3 km north of ATOW1996.
ATOW1996
- Type: Islet
- Description: patch of gravel in northern Greenland
- Categories: island, iceberg, locality, and landform
- Location: Greenland, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
83.67633° or 83° 40′ 35″ northLongitude
-30.64406° or 30° 38′ 39″ westOpen location code
C9MFM9G4+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 2057933384OpenStreetMap feature
place=isletWikidata ID
Q299062
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Veps—“ATOW1996” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “ATOW1996”
- Danish: “ATOW1996”
- Dutch: “ATOW1996”
- French: “ATOW1996”
- German: “1996 ATOW/Resurrection Island”
- Italian: “ATOW1996”
- Japanese: “ATOW1996”
- Latvian: “ATOW1996”
- Polish: “ATOW1996”
- Romanian: “ATOW1996”
- Russian: “ATOW1996”
- Spanish: “ATOW1996”
- Swedish: “ATOW1996”
- Turkish: “ATOW1996”
- Ukrainian: “ATOW1996”
- Veps: “Mail’manpän Sar‘”
- Veps: “Mail’manpän Sar’”
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Highlights include Northernmost point of North America & Earth and RTOW2001.
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