Pingarssuit Mountain

Pingarssuit Mountain (P-Mountain, colloq.) is a Greenland landform near Thule Air Base and which has a USAF military installation.

History

During the Cold War, Thule Site N-32 on P-Mountain had a US Army Air Defense Command Post for Project Nike to control the 4 missile sites in the area (the USAF also had a radar at the site for control of aircraft traffic in the area.)[1] A late 1960s satellite communications terminal was moved from the Thule P-Mountain site to Thule Site J in 1983.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Missile Sites".
  2. ↑ "Newcomer's Welcome Package Thule Air Base, Greenland Home of the 821st Air Base Group" (PDF). militaryonesource.mil. Retrieved 2016-10-15.

Coordinates: 76°24′07″N 68°43′37″W / 76.402°N 68.727°W / 76.402; -68.727

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