2025-01-09 21:38 UTC
7/ Denmark 🇩🇰 is a founding member of NATO, and Greenland 🇬🇱 played a key role in the cold war, as part of the GIUK Gap (Greenland, Iceland 🇮🇸, United Kingdom 🇬🇧) a naval choke point, critical for the containment of the Soviet Union's naval forces during the cold war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIUK_gap
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@opencage@en.osm.town 2025-01-09 21:38
8/ It was during the Cold War that a US 🇺🇸 military facility, Thule Air Base, was established in the far north of Greenland 🇬🇱. It is the site of the world's northernmost deep water port 1,210 km north of the Arctic Circle, and a territorial concession granted to the United States in perpetuity. In 2020 it was transferred to the US Space Force and renamed Pituffik Space Base 🚀 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituffik_Space_Base https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/76.5307/-68.7281 #geoweirdness