Pituffik

Pituffik is a former Inughuit settlement in , near Mount Dundas at the eastern end of in northern . It was located on the plain that is now occupied by the runway of the U.S.
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Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
  • Type: Dwelling
  • Description: settlement in Greenland
  • Also known as: “Astro Pynt”, “Dundas”, and “Pitugfik”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pituffik Space Base and Greenland Telescope.

Aerodrome
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, formerly Thule Air Base, is a United States Space Force base located on the northwest coast of in the Kingdom of Denmark under a defense agreement between Denmark and the .

Photo: Jackcc52, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a radio telescope situated at the Pituffik Space Base in north-western . It will later be deployed at the Summit Station research camp, located at the highest point of the Greenland ice sheet at an altitude of 3,210 meters. is situated 1½ km east of Pituffik.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thule.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 3½ km north of Pituffik.

Pituffik

Latitude
76.53333° or 76° 32′ north
Longitude
-68.75° or 68° 45′ west
Population
235
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
THU
United Nations Location Code
GL THU
Open location code
C78HG7M2+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2051281114
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­isolated_dwelling
Geo­Names ID
3831224
Wiki­data ID
Q1991632
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Satellite Map

Discover Pituffik from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Pituffik” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيتوفيك”
  • Asturian: “Pituffik”
  • Basque: “Pituffik”
  • Catalan: “Pituffik”
  • Cebuano: “Pituffik”
  • Chinese: “圖勒”
  • Chinese: “皮圖非克”
  • Czech: “Pituffická oblast”
  • Czech: “Pituffik”
  • Danish: “Dundas”
  • Danish: “Gammel Thule”
  • Danish: “Pituffik”
  • Dutch: “Pituffik”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيتوفيك”
  • French: “Pituffik”
  • Italian: “Pituffik”
  • Japanese: “ピツフィク”
  • Japanese: “ピツフィック”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pituffik”
  • Norwegian: “Pituffik”
  • Romanian: “Pituffik”
  • Russian: “Питуффик”
  • Spanish: “Pituffik”
  • Swedish: “Pituffik”

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