Bluie East 1
Prince Christian Sound, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
Wikipedia: Prince_Christian_Sound
Primarily a weather station
Photo by Jens Bludau
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:
Photo by Jens Bludau
Bluie East 2
Ikateq, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
Wikipedia: North Atlantic air ferry route in WWII
This was an airfield and weather station.
Photo by Pbesser
Bluie East 3
Scoresby Sound, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
This was a radio and weather station
Bluie East 4
Ella Island, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
radio and weather station
Bluie East 5
Clavering Island, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
This is the original Bluie East Five
The Island was nicknamed Eskimonæs
This was a radio and weather station.
Bluie East 5 (later)
Myggbukta, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
This was a radio and weather station
Bluie West 1
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.
Photo by Hrftx
Bluie West 3
Simiutaq, Greenland
Active: 1941-1947
This was a radio direction finding station.
Bluie West 4
aka: Teague Field
Marrak Point, Greenland
Active: 1942-1945
This was an airfield, radio, and weather station.
Don't see anything that looks like an airfield at the marker location
Bluie West 5
Assiaat, Disko Island, Greenland
Active: 1942-1945
This was a radio and weather station.
Bluie West 6
aka: Pituffik Space Base
aka: Thule AFB
Pituffik, Greenland
Active: 1943-Present
Photo by TSGT Lee E. Schading
Bluie West 7
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.
Photo by
Bluie West 8
aka: Sondrestrom Air Base
Kangerlussuaq Fjord, Greenland
Active: 1941-Present
Wikipedia: Sondrestrom Air Base
Wikipedia: North Atlantic Route
This was a SAC base, now Air National Guard
This was part of the Crimson Route.
Bluie West 9
aka: Cruncher Island
Simiutak Island, Greenland
Active: 1941-Present
This was a radio communications facility.
Photo by Algkalv
Camp Century
Icecap, Greenland
Active: 1959-1966
This was an underground city in the ice.
Photo by U.S. Army
Camp Fistclench
Icecap, Greenland
Active: 1957-1960
This was a U.S. Army research camp.
Photo by U.S. Army
Camp TUTO
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
DEW site DYE-1
Qaqqatoqaq, -near Sisimiut, Greenland
Active: 1957-1988
Tactical callsign: Red River
Photo by Preben Bjornsholm
DEW site DYE-2
Greenland-ICE CAP 1, Greenland
Active: 1957-1988
Tactical callsign: Sea Bass
Photo by Arthur Everett
DEW site DYE-3
Greenland-ICE CAP 2, Greenland
Active: 1957-1988
Tactical callsign: Sob Story
Photo by Lars Henrik Mortensen
DEW site DYE-4
Kulusuk, Greenland
Active: 1957-1991
Tactical callsign: Big Gun
Photo by Preben Bjornsholm
Germany Bassgeiger
Shannon Island, Greenland
Active: 1944-1944
German weather station
Germany Edelweiss II
Little Koldewey Island, Greenland
Active: 1944-1944
Link: Operation Edelweiss (ii)
German weather station
Germany Holzauge
Hansa Bay on Sabine Island's northeast coast, Greenland
Active: 1942-1943
German weather station
Kulusuk Airport
Kulusuk, Greenland
Active: 1957-1991
LORAN Station Frederiksdal
Frederiksdal, Greenland
Active: 1943-1984
Station Nord
Qaasuitsup Municipality, Greenland
Active: 1952-1966
This was a military and scientific station.
This was a U.S. satellite tracking station, part of Satellite Triangulation Program.
Photo by NOAA
Summit Camp
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.
Photo by Peter West/NFS
Photo by August Allen, Polar Field Services
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