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A group of scientists say have discovered  the world's northernmost island off Greenland's coast

In July, the scientists flew to collect samples to what they thought was Oodaaq Island, that has been known since 1978.
But when they checked their position with the Danish official in charge of registering Arctic islands, they were 800m (2,625ft) further north.
The 60X30m island is the closest point of land to the North Pole, they say.
Greenland is a vast autonomous Arctic territory that belongs to Denmark.
"The island was discovered during a Danish-Swiss research expedition, which I was co-ordinating," scientific leader Morten Rasch of the Arctic Station in Greenland, University of Copenhagen, told the BBC.