Grant Land is the northern lobe of
Ellesmere Island,
Nunavut, Canada. Situated on the north coast,
Cape Columbia
Cape Columbia is the northernmost point of land of Canada, located on Ellesmere Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut. It marks the westernmost coastal point of Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's northernmost point of land ...
, is the northernmost point of Canada, only 770 km from the
North Pole
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's rotation, Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distingu ...
, and was used as the final point on land for
Peary's North Pole expedition in 1909.
At its highest point, it is above
sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardise ...
.
References
Geography of Qikiqtaaluk Region
Ellesmere Island
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