Annoatok

Annoatok (or Anoritooq)), latitude 78°33' N and longitude 72°30' W [ [http://www.antarctica.org/old/UK/Expe/Pag_hubert/Transarctic_02_UK/dias/cook_peary.htm 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 15 miles north of Etah. It is now abandoned.

Annoatok was used as a base by Frederick Cook during his Arctic expedition of 1908-1909, when he claimed to have reached the North Pole [Henderson, B. (2005) "True North" W W Norton ISBN 0 393 32738 8] .At that time it was the most northerly inhabited place on earth. [Bryce, R.M. (1997) "Cook & Peary: the Polar Controversy Resolved" ISBN 0 8117 0317 7, p.303]

The name means "the wind-loved place". [Bryce (1997), p.306]