Cape Columbia

The Cape Columbia (English Cape Columbia) is the northernmost point of Canada and the American continent, if you do not impute this Greenland. It is located on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago - to 83 ° 6 ' 41 "N, 69 ° 57 ' 30" W83.11138889 - 69.95833333Koordinaten: 83 ° 6 ' 41 "N, 69 ° 57 ' 30" W 766, 84 km from the North Pole. From Cape Columbia to the southernmost point of the American continent ( Cape Horn ) the distance is 15,485 km.

Was first reached the Cape of Lieutenant Pelham Aldrich, a participant of the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876 under George Nares.