<h1 class="ql-align-center"><strong style="background-color: rgb(250, 204, 204);">Qeqertaq Avannarleq</strong></h1><h2><br></h2><h2><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><span class="ql-cursor">﻿</span>Context:</strong></h2><p><br></p><ul><li class="ql-align-justify">A team of Arctic researchers from Denmark says they accidentally discovered what they believe is the<strong> world’s northernmost island located off Greenland’s coast.</strong></li></ul><p><br></p><h2><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">About:</strong></h2><p><br></p><ul><li>Measuring 60×30 meters and with a peak of three meters above sea level, it has now become the new northernmost piece of land on Earth.</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li class="ql-indent-1">Before this, Oodaaq was marked as the Earth’s northernmost terrain.</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>The new island is made up of<strong> seabed mud and moraine</strong>, i.e. soil, rock, and other material left behind by moving glaciers, and has no vegetation.</li></ul>