Pituffik Space Base
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Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base, is a United States Space Force base located on the northwest coast of Greenland in the Kingdom of Denmark under a defense agreement between Denmark and the United States.
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Greenland: Staying with the Polar Inuit. How a secret military base helped trigger the silent collapse of an Arctic world
In 1951, the French Explorer Jean Malaurie witnessed the building of a US military base in Greenland in near total secrecy, which marked an irreversible turning point for Inuit societies.
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Greenland
- Official website
- www.petersonschriever.spaceforce.mil/Pituffik-SB-Greenland
- Image
- Thule Air Base aerial view.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pituffik Space Base
- inception
- 1951-00-00
- replaces
- Thule Air Base
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