List of northernmost settlements
Location Country Latitude Population Public settlement ? Active ? Description
Camp Barneo , Arctic Ocean Ice Sheet None ( International waters ) 88°11 ' N 100 no yes Latitude as of April 2009 ( varies ) , northernmost inhabited place , Russian Ice Camp , populated in summer only
Frigg Fjord Settlements , Peary Land Greenland ( Denmark ) 83°7 ' N 0 yes no A group of 3 archeological sites
Ward Hunt Island Camp , Nunavut Canada 83°06 ' N 0 no no Former exploration base in 1957-58 , airstrip , building . Uninhabited as of 2019
Alert , Ellesmere Island , Nunavut Canada 82°28 ' N 74 no no ( closed ) Northernmost place with a permanent ( year-round ) population ; military and research station ( CFS Alert )
Wandel Dal Settlements , Peary Land Greenland ( Denmark ) 82°15 ' N 0 yes no A group of more than 20 archeological sites , among them several former permanent settlements
Brønlundhus , Peary Land Greenland ( Denmark ) 82°11 ' N 0 no no Former exploration base , 1947 to 1950
Kap Harald Moltke , Peary Land Greenland ( Denmark ) 82°10 ' N 0 no no Former exploration base
Deltaterrasserne , Peary Land Greenland ( Denmark ) 82°07 ' N 0 yes no Archaeological site
Fort Conger , Ellesmere Island , Nunavut Canada 81°44 ' N 0 no no Former exploration camp , 1881 to 1883 and 1957 to 1958
Nord Greenland ( Denmark ) 81°43 ' N 4 no yes Military and scientific base
Nagurskoye , Franz Josef Land Russia 80°48 ' N 52 no yes Border guard facility and meteorological station
Krenkel , Franz Josef Land Russia 80°37 ' N 7 no yes Meteorological station
Tikhaya Bay , Franz Josef Land Russia 80°20 ' N 0 no no Former weather station
Eureka , Ellesmere Island , Nunavut Canada 79°59 ' N 0 no yes Scientific station
Alexandra Fiord , Ellesmere Island , Nunavut Canada 79°58 ' N 0 no no Former Royal Canadian Mounted Police station
Ytre Norskøya , Svalbard Norway 79°51'20 N 0 no no Former Dutch whaling station , 1620s to 1670
Smeerenburg , Amsterdam Island , Svalbard Norway 79°43'54 N 0 no no Former Danish-Dutch whaling station , 1619 to 1657
Harlingen kokerij , Danes Island , Svalbard Norway 79°43'24 N 0 no no Former Dutch whaling station , 1636 to 1662
Kobbefjorden , Danes Island , Svalbard Norway 79°41'42 N 0 no no Former Danish whaling station , 1631 to 1658
Golomyanniy , Sredniy Island , Severnaya Zemlya Russia 79°33 ' N 3 no yes Meteorological station
Some of the northernmost settlements in the world are :
Some of the northernmost settlements in the world are: