Pituffik
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Pituffik is a former Inughuit settlement in North Star Bay, near Mount Dundas at the eastern end of Bylot Sound in northern Greenland. It was located on the plain that is now occupied by the runway of the U.S. Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base. The Inughuit inhabitants were relocated to the present-day town of Qaanaaq. The relocation and the fallout from the 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash in the vicinity are a contentious issue in Greenland's relations with Denmark and the United States.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Pituffik
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Sled Dogs Thule Greenland.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A dog sled race at Pituffik, with Mount Dundas in the background
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Greenland
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- Location within Greenland
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Constituent country
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Greenland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Avannaata
- Settlement.extinct_title
- Relocated
- Settlement.extinct_date
- 1953
- Settlement.timezone
- UTC-04
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Pituffik
- Population
- 85
- Image
- Aerial Picture Of Thule Air Base.jpg
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8 sectionsContents
- Exploration
- Military control
- Forced relocation
- Plutonium contamination
- Legal action over civilian relocations
- Climate
- See also
- References
Pituffik is a former Inughuit settlement in North Star Bay, near Mount Dundas at the eastern end of Bylot Sound in northern Greenland. It was located on the plain that is now occupied by the runway of the U.S. Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base. The Inughuit inhabitants were relocated to the present-day town of Qaanaaq. The relocation and the fallout from the 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash in the vicinity are a contentious issue in Greenland's relations with Denmark and the United States.
== Exploration== Pituffik was a hunting village of the Inughuit, the northern Greenlandic Inuit. The Qaanaaq region of northern Greenland in which it is located was inhabited for several thousand years, first settled 4,500 years ago by Paleo-Eskimo peoples migrating from the Canadian Arctic.
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