“This little island could have a wide international significance,” said Stefan Talmon, professor of international law at Oxford University in Britain. Its discovery comes as countries around the Arctic Ocean - the United States, Russia, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Iceland - are rushing to stake out the Polar Basin’s seabed, fishing rights and maritime routes. It was exposed mainly by shifting pack ice.Īs Greenland is under Denmark’s administration, this scrap of land just 40 meters (43.7 yards) long could extend Danish territory further north and strengthen Copenhagen’s claim on the pole. The best candidate to date for the world’s northernmost point of land - a mythical place sought by explorers for centuries - was spotted in July during an expedition led by Arctic veteran Dennis Schmitt.Ĭalifornia-based Schmitt, best-known for his 2005 discovery of Warming Island off the eastern coast of Greenland, named it Stray Dog West because, he said, it “erred under the ice”. The best candidate to date for the world's northernmost point of land - a mythical place sought by explorers for centuries - was spotted in July during an expedition led by Arctic veteran Dennis Schmitt. Stray Dog West island is seen in this aerial photo taken Jin Northern Greenland near Cape Evan Monch.
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