Annoatok or Anoritooq, located at ,The first conqueror of the North Pole: Cook, Peary, or neither? by Jacques L Theodor was a small hunting station in Greenland on Smith Sound about north of Etah. It is now abandoned.
History Annoatok was used as a base by Frederick Cook during his Arctic expedition of 1908–09, when he claimed to have reached the North Pole.Henderson, B. (2005) True North W W Norton The name Annoatok means "the wind-loved place".Bryce (1997), p.306 According to a publication in 1997, it was the most northerly inhabited place on Earth at that time.Bryce, R.M. (1997) Cook & Peary: the Polar Controversy Resolved , p.303 However, excavations carried out by Erik Holtved in Inuarfissuaq at 78.9° N in central Inglefield Land proved human settlement further north. Excavations during the years 2004 to 2005 gave evidence of an ancient settlement about 30 km further north in Qaqaitsut at 79.2° N in Eastern Inglefield Land.Darwent, John et al.: Archaeological Survey of Eastern Inglefield Land, Northwestern Greenland, in: ARCTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 51–86, 2007, p. 52
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