In the late 1950s, the United States Army (USAR) started carving ice tunnels in the Greenland ice shelf. The tunnels…
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CRREL Greenland Ice Cores
In 1966, after 3 years of drilling, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratories (CRREL) reached 4,550 feet deep in the…
Continue ReadingThule Station Norwegian Antarctic Research Program
the Norwegian Antarctic Research Program’s Thule Station was established in 1995. It is located in Pituffik, Greenland (Thule Air Base…
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This is my second Thule Air Base mug. The most recent mug is porcelain and glazed, whereas the first mug…
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This chart was found on SIPRE Report 15 dated September 1953.
Continue ReadingWhat am I reading? January 28, 2021
“Exploring Greenland: Cold War Science and Technology on Ice (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology,” 1st ed.…
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Camp Tuto and Camp Century housed service members from the U.S. Army Polar Research & Development Center. Writing a book…
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“The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future” by…
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I purchased this 25 years at Thule Air Base, Greenland mug at eBay. The mug shows the Air Base and…
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thule1954.com
Nate Galbreath’s page at http://thule1954.com is being redirected to a GeoCities page with the same content at http://www.geocities.ws/nategal/. The domain…
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Writing the Overland Trains book has made me more sentimental. Conversations with individuals and their kin about the Distant Early…
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Pine Tree Line – radar, planned 1946, handed over to Canada on 10Jan55 Mid-Canada Line or McGill Fence – 1956-1965DEW Line – radio…
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