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The world's northernmostLidl inSodankylä, Finland. The store has a sign telling others about it being the northernmost Lidl.
That is, recreational beach with an extensive stretch of fine sand of gradual slope, where beach swimming, sunbathing, and surfing are regularly practiced.[642][643] The remote Norwegian resort town ofGrense Jakobselv, on the Barents Sea at the Norwegian-Russian border69°46′30″N30°49′52″E / 69.77500°N 30.83111°E /69.77500; 30.83111, also has an extensive sand beach of gradual slope (the Lungomare), but the air and water are cold even in summer, and traditional southern-beach activities are much less common.[644]
^Bjarne Grønnow, Jens Fog Jensen:The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe. Eigil Knuth’s Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High Arctic Greenland (= Man & Society. Vol. 29). Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen 2003,ISBN978-87-635-3065-1 pp. 56-119
^Rosenthal, Elisabeth (March 3, 2008)."A Speck of Sunlight Is a Town's Yearly Alarm Clock".The New York Times. RetrievedMarch 16, 2010. ("this remote Arctic settlement — which bills itself as the northernmost town in the world ... The 2,000 inhabitants of Longyearbyen...")
^Januszczak, Waldemar (January 20, 2008)."Darker than it looks".The Times. London. Archived fromthe original on June 17, 2011. RetrievedApril 16, 2010. ("Norilsk, in Siberia, is the northernmost city on the planet, and one of only two cities, the other being Yakutsk, in the permafrost zone inside the Arctic Circle.")
^Jorma Mänty, & Norman Pressman.Cities designed for winter p.295 (1988) (ISBN978-9516821675) ("Norilsk, the northernmost city in the world of over 100000 population")
^"Land Farthest North Is Kaffeklubben Island".The New York Times. June 15, 1969. RetrievedMarch 17, 2010. ("Cartographers in north Greenland have found that Kaffeklubben Island is farther north than any previously known point of land.")
^Voiland, Adam (December 2, 2020)."An Unexpected Expanse of Sand in Alaska".earthobservatory.nasa.gov. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin. RetrievedJanuary 11, 2025.
^ab"Norwegian outpost mix of books, booze".Reading Eagle. March 9, 1999. RetrievedMarch 16, 2010. (regarding Tromsø, "this small Norwegian city has the most northerly university in the world, the most northerly cathedral and the most northerly botanical gardens.")
^VORES HOTELLER I HONNINGSVÅG (the reference shows ice-free and a fishing port, but not that it is northernmost, but it is further north than Sisimiut which is claimed to be northernmost)
^"Backpacker".Backpacker. Gear Guide. Active Interest Media, Inc.: 60 March 2009.ISSN0277-867X. RetrievedApril 10, 2017.
^BergnäsbronArchived 2017-07-30 at theWayback Machine (the reference shows it's moveable and its latitude, but not that it is northernmost, but it is further north than Arkhangelsk which is claimed to be northernmost)
^Gray, William (March 14, 2001)."Svalbard: To the back of beyond".Telegraph. London. RetrievedAugust 3, 2010.Nearby, at the polar research community of Ny-Alesund... cruise ship passengers scuttling ashore to mail cards from the world's most northerly post office.
^Wessel, Ben (August 26, 2008)."Svalbard, Norway".The Wall Street Journal. RetrievedAugust 1, 2010.Longyearbyen is the world's northernmost town and boasts many other superlatives, such as the world's northernmost ATM...
^Ingebrigtsen, T; Romner, B; Solberg, T; Nygaard, ØP (2003). "Neurosurgery at the University Hospital of North Norway: the history of the northernmost neurosurgical department in the world".Neurosurgery.53 (3):731–40, discussion 740–2.doi:10.1227/01.neu.0000080063.52488.1b.PMID12943589.S2CID9561609.
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