, Greenland
Active: 1943-1984
Greenland and the U.S.
This map shows the locations of all U.S. military and scientific research locations on Greenland, past and present. Most were installed during World War II. Some later. The blue markers represent current bases. The red markers are for bases that were removed or turned over to the Greenland-Denmark government.
The code names for some of these bases is Bluie. This name is arbitrary and has nothing to do with Greenland.
Number of locations:
, Greenland
Active: 1943-1984
Shannon Island, Greenland
Active: 1944-1944
German weather station
Little Koldewey Island, Greenland
Active: 1944-1944
Link: Operation Edelweiss (ii)
German weather station
Hansa Bay on Sabine Island's northeast coast, Greenland
Active: 1942-1943
German weather station
Prince Christian Sound, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
Wikipedia: Prince_Christian_Sound
Primarily a weather station
Ikateq, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
Wikipedia: North Atlantic air ferry route in WWII
airfield and weather station
Scoresby Sound, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
radio and weather station
Ella Island, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
radio and weather station
Clavering Island, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
This is the original Bluie East Five
The Island was nicknamed Eskimonæs
radio and weather station
Myggbukta, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
radio and weather station
aka: Narsarsuaq International Airport
Narsarsuaq, Greenland
Active: 1941-1958
Wikipedia: Narsarsuaq_Air_Base
Wikipedia: North Atlantic air ferry route in WWII
airfield, radio and weather station
About 4,000 American servicemen were stationed there, living in an area norheast of the airfield called Hospital Valley.
Bluie West One is sometimes abbreviated BW-1.
PBY Catalina patrol planes were stationed there.
Simiutaq, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
radio direction finding station
aka: Teague Field
Marrak Point, Greenland
Active: 1942-1945
airfield, radio, and weather station
Don't see anything that looks like an airfield at the marker location
Assiaat, Disko Island, Greenland
Active: 1942-1945
radio and weather station
aka: Pituffik Space Base
aka: Thule AFB
Pituffik, Greenland
Active: 1943-Present
aka: Kangilinnguit
aka: Gronnedal
aka: Green Valley
aka: Navy 26
Ivigtut, Arsuk Fjord, Greenland
Active: 1940-1951
Link: Reuters: Denmark spurned Chinese offer for Greenland base over security - sources
North Atlantic Route
PBY5 Catalina patrol aircraft operated from this location during WWII.
In 2016, the Chinese mining company General Nice Group offered to buy the base, but the Danish government rejected the offer because of the United States.
aka: Sondrestrom Air Base
Kangerlussuaq Fjord, Greenland
Active: 1941-Present
Wikipedia: Sondrestrom Air Base
Wikipedia: North Atlantic Route
SAC, now Air National Guard
Crimson Route
aka: Cruncher Island
Simiutak Island, Greenland
Active: 1941-Present
radio communications facility
Icecap, Greenland
Active: 1959-1966
An underground city in the ice
Icecap, Greenland
Active: 1957-1960
U.S. Army research camp
Qaasuitsup Municipality, Greenland
Active: 1954-1966
Link: Lisa Murkowski visits Camp Tuto
Link: Camp TUTO Sixty Year Anniversary
Link: Ray Hansen's recollections from 1955-58
Qaasuitsup Municipality, Greenland
Active: 1952-1966
A military and scientific station
was a U.S. satellite tracking station, part of Satellite Triangulation Program.
Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland
Active: 1989-Present
The station is located at 3,216 metres (10,551 ft) above sea level at the apex of the Greenland ice sheet. It is a research facility run by the United States National Science Foundation.
Qaqqatoqaq, -near Sisimiut, Greenland
Active: 1957-1988
Tactical callsign: Red River
Greenland-ICE CAP 1, Greenland
Active: 1957-1988
Tactical callsign: Sea Bass
Greenland-ICE CAP 2, Greenland
Active: 1957-1988
Tactical callsign: Sob Story
Kulusuk, Greenland
Active: 1957-1991
Tactical callsign: Big Gun
This is a link to the Joint Committee Annual Report 2011 that documents the relationship between Greenland, Denmark, and the United States.
Sources
The Long Blue line: Greenland—Coast Guard’s Arctic combat zone of World War II, 1940-41