North Star Bay
North Star Bay, also known as Thule Harbor and Wolstenholme Bay, is at the mouth of Wolstenholme Fjord in north-west Greenland. The Dundas Peninsula, terminating in the mesa-like Mount Dundas, is at the north-eastern end of the bay.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Cove
- Description: thule army base
- Also known as: “Bylot Sound” and “Thule Harbor”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pituffik Space Base and Comer’s Midden.
Pituffik Space Base
Aerodrome
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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. Pituffik Space Base is situated 3½ km southeast of North Star Bay.
Comer’s Midden
Dwelling
Comer's Midden was a 1916 archaeological excavation site at Uummannaq, known as Dundas in English, north of Mt. Dundas in the Thule area of North Star Bay, in northern Greenland.
Pituffik
Dwelling
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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 is situated 3 km southeast of North Star Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thule.
North Star Bay
- Categories: bay and body of water
- Location: Avannaata, Greenland, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“North Star Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “North Star Bugt”
- Danish: “North Star Bay”
- Dutch: “Bylot Sound”
- Dutch: “North Star Bay”
- Dutch: “Thule Harbor”
- French: “baie North Star”
- French: “Baie North Star”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ נורת‘ סטאר”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ נורת’ סטאר”
- Japanese: “テューレ湾”
- Macedonian: “Норт Стар (залив)”
- Macedonian: “Норт Стар”
- Swedish: “North Star Bugt”
- Turkish: “North Star Bay”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sioraq and Uummannaq.
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