Northern Latitudes (Selection to Compare)

Degrees North

North America (Canada, USA)

Europe incl. Greenland,
Asia (Russia)

North Pole

90°00’

   

83°45’

 

Greenland (northern tip)

83°30’

Ellesmere Island (northern tip)

 

81°45’

 

Franz Josef Land (northern tip)

81°20’

 

Severnaja Zemlja (northern tip)

80°35’

 

Svalbård (northern tip)

~ 78°30’

(~ 104° w. L.)

Magnetic North Pole

(IGRF 1995)

 

77°25’

 

Qaanaaq (Greenland);
Novaja Zemlja (northern tip)

76°25’

Grisefiord (most northern
Canadian community)

Svalbård (Norway) (southern tip)

73°45’

Bylot Island (northern tip)

Upernavik (Greenland)

72°45’

Pond Inlet

Lena-Delta (Russia)

71°50’

Barrow (Alaska northern tip, USA)

 

71°10’

 

North Cape (Norway);
Wrangel Island (Russia)

Northern Arctic Circle

66°30’

Repulse Bay (Canada)

Kangerlussuaq (Greenland);
Iceland (northern tip)

65°50’

Wager Bay

Tasiilaq (Eastern Greenland)

64°15’

Baker Lake,
Cape Dorset

Nuuk (Greenland);
Reykjavik (Iceland);
Namsos (Norway)

63°45’

Iqaluit

Island (southern tip);
Trondheim (Norway)

62°50’

Rankin Inlet

Røros (Norway)

61°10’

Arviat

Sognefjord, Lillehammer (Norway)

60°00’

 

Greenland (southern tip);
Oslo, Bergen (Norway)

58°45’

Churchill

Stavanger, Kragerø, Moss (Norway)