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pituffik

Pituffik (approximately ) was a hunting village of the Greenlandic Inuit until the United States was given permission to build Thule Air Base in 1951. By 1953, all residents of Pituffik and nearby Dundas had been forced to move 130 km north to the new town of Qaanaaq, commonly known at the time as "New Thule". The Thule Air Base is also an area not belonging to any municipality (...)
Feature: airport, Country Code: GL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 76.5333, Lng.: -68.75
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thule

, with a "monster, seen in 1537", a whale, and an orca nearby. Thule (also Thula, Thyle, Thylee, Thile, Thila, Tile, Tila, Tilla, Tyle, or Tylen—being Θούλη in Greek) is in Classical sources a place, usually an island. Ancient European descriptions and maps locate it either in the far north, often northern Great Britain, possibly the Orkneys or Shetland Islands, or Scandinavia, or, in (...)
Feature: , Country Code: GL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 76.5306, Lng.: -68.71
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southern thule

s in the South Sandwich Islands: Bellingshausen, Cook, and Thule (Morrell). Southern Thule is British territory, though claimed by Argentina. The island group is barren, windswept, bitterly cold, and uninhabited, of no real strategic or economic value. The Admiralty's ''Antarctic Pilot'' says that Southern Thule is part of an old sunken volcano, and is covered with ash and penguin guano (...)
Feature: isle, Country Code: GS, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -59.45, Lng.: -27.3
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qaanaaq

Qaanaaq is a town and municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is the only town and the only municipality in the county of North Greenland (Avannaa). Qaanaaq was founded when the US extended their current airbase at Thule and the former population of Pituffik was forced to move out 19 miles to the north within 4 days (...)
Feature: landmark, Country Code: GL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 77.4833, Lng.: -69.3333
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pave paws

in Colorado. ' Air Force Space Command radar system operated by three 21st Space Wing squadrons for missile warning and space surveillance. Operational PAVE PAWS radars are located at: [http://www.afspc.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=3656 USAF PAVE PAWS Fact Sheet]Accessed 17 July 2007 *Cape Cod Air Force Station, Massachusetts (...)
Feature: , Country Code: US, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 41.7522, Lng.: -70.5381
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iceland

Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland (; ) is a country in northern Europe, comprising the island of Iceland and its outlying islets in the North Atlantic Ocean between the rest of Europe and Greenland. It is the least populous of the Nordic countries and the second smallest; it has a population of about 313,000 and a total area of 103,000 km² (...)
Feature: country, Country Code: IS, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 64.8306, Lng.: -17.9867
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ballistic missile early warning system

and both report back to Cheyenne Mountain Air Base in Colorado. The United States Air Force Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) was the first operational ballistic missile detection radar. The original system was built in 1959 and could provide long-range warning of a ballistic missile attack over the polar region of the northern hemisphere (...)
Feature: , Country Code: GL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 76.569, Lng.: -68.318
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polar exploration

Polar exploration is the physical exploration of the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the Earth. It is also denotes the historical period during which mankind most intensely explored the regions north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle. Humankind has explored the north and south extremes since 325 BCE, although physical contact with remote areas, including much of the (...)
Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -69.3578, Lng.: -2.2472
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moriusaq

Moriusaq is a small settlement with 21 inhabitants in the municipality of Qaanaaq, about 30 km from the Thule Air Base. Hunting in the area is good, particularly fish, seals and polar bears. In the recent past some families moved away, particularly to Qaanaaq, where the infrastructure is better (...)
Feature: , Country Code: GL, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 76.7561, Lng.: -69.8864
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uummannaq

. Located at 70 degrees north, it is about halfway up Greenland's northwest coast. Uummannaq is 700 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, just north of Disko Island. Qaanaaq (Thule) lies several hundred miles further north. The town has a population of around 1,500 and is home to Greenland's most northerly ferry terminal (...)
Feature: city, Country Code: GL, Population: 2800, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 70.6775, Lng.: -52.1219
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operation keyhole

During Operation Corporate in the 1982 Falklands War, Operation Keyhole was a British special operation on Thule Island on the South Sandwich Islands. The Operation took place from 19-20 June 1982. 10 prisoners (one civilian and nine military personal) were evacuated to the tanker OLMEDA, accompanied by HMS YARMOUTH. They departed for South Georgia (...)
Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -59.45, Lng.: -27.3
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cobra dane

The AN/FPS-108 Cobra Dane radar is a phased array installation at Eareckson Air Station on the island of Shemya, Alaska. This radar system was built in 1976 and brought on-line in 1977 for the primary mission of intelligence gathering in support of verification of the SALT II arms limitation agreement. Its single 29 m diameter antenna faces the Kamchatka Peninsula (...)
Feature: landmark, Country Code: US, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 52.7368, Lng.: 174.0912
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narsarsuaq

Narsarsuaq (variously spelled, the name is Greenlandic for Great Plain) was the principal city of Greenland in the times of Erik the Red whose farm Brattahlíð was nearby. That settlement died out by the end of the Middle Ages. In 1941, the United States built an air base at Narsarsuaq called Bluie West One, and an important link in the North Atlantic Ferry Route (...)
Feature: city, Country Code: GL, Population: 160, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 61.1606, Lng.: -45.4303
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swastika

' ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing or left-facing forms. The swastika can also be drawn as a traditional swastika, but with a second 90° bend in each arm. The term may be derived from Sanskrit ''svasti''. Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates from the Neolithic period (...)
Feature: , Country Code: US, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 28.3661, Lng.: -81.5593
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pepperrell air force base

Pepperell Air Force Base, previously known as Fort Pepperrell, is a former United States military base located in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada which operated from 1941-1960. The base was named in honour of Sir William Pepperrell (1696-1759) of Kittery, Maine, commander of a force of 4,200 soldiers and sailors aboard 90 ships, who captured the French seaport at Louisbourg after a (...)
Feature: place, Country Code: CA, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 47.5861, Lng.: -52.6919
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palomares hydrogen bombs incident

. On January 17 1966 a B-52G bomber of the USAF Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refuelling at 31,000 feet over the Mediterranean sea, off the coast of Spain. The KC-135 was completely destroyed when its load of fuel ignited, killing all four crew members. The B-52G broke apart, killing three crew members (...)
Feature: city, Country Code: ES, Population: 1250, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 37.2492, Lng.: -1.7969
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raf fylingdales

Royal Air Force station on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England. Its Motto is "Vigilamus" (translates to "We are watching"). It is a radar base and part of the United States-controlled Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS). As part of intelligence-sharing arrangements between the United States and United Kingdom (see, for example, the UKUSA Community), data collected at RAF (...)
Feature: , Country Code: GB, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 54.3616, Lng.: -0.6697
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cfs alert

Canadian Forces Station Alert, also CFS Alert, is a Canadian Forces signals intelligence intercept facility located in Alert, Nunavut on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, at . It is the northernmost permanently-inhabited settlement in the world. It takes its name from HMS ''Alert'', which wintered 10 km east of the present station off what is now Cape Sheridan, Nunavut in (...)
Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 82.5, Lng.: -62.3167
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national missile defense

Missile Range on December 3, 2001, for an intercept of a ballistic missile target over the central Pacific Ocean. National Missile Defense (NMD) as a generic term is a military strategy and associated systems to shield an entire country against incoming Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). The missiles could be intercepted by other missiles, or possibly by lasers (...)
Feature: , Country Code: US, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 63.954, Lng.: -145.735
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british t class submarine

The Royal Navy's T class (or ''Triton'' class) of submarines was designed in the 1930s to replace the O, P and R classes. (...)
Feature: landmark, Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 59, Lng.: 5
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sovereignty of the falkland islands

The sovereignty of the Falkland Islands (''Islas Malvinas'' in Spanish) [http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=Falklands&B10=Buscar&dict=enes] WordReference, English-Spanish Dictionary. ''Falklands: the Falklands, las (islas) Malvinas''. has been the subject of dispute between the United Kingdom, Spain, France and Argentina (all controlling the Falkland Islands at (...)
Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: -51.6667, Lng.: -59.5
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