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ID: 7024611
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7024611
Record Type:
administrative
Thule Air Base (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 76 31 52 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 76.5310
decimal degrees
Long: 068 42 06 W
degrees minutes
Long: -68.7110
decimal degrees
Note:
Air base & seat of research for the ice sheet, by US & Danish scientists; civil airport for NW Greenland.
Names:
Thule Air Base
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Pituffik
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Greenland
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
lost & found/Grønland
(miscellaneous) (
P
)
................
Thule Air Base
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by Thule Eskimoes in 1951, at site of previous settlement
town (
C
)
air base (
C
)
airport (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Pituffik..........
[
VP
]
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000)
accessed 04/10/00
Thule Air Base..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Columbia Gazetteer (1998)
III, 3156
.............................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000)
accessed 04/10/00
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Columbia Gazetteer (1998)
III, 3156
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 4 October 2006
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000)
accessed 04/10/00
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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