Nord, Greenland
81.6025 - 16.67Koordinaten: 81 ° 36 ' N, 16 ° 40 ' W
The North Station is the northernmost military station of the Danish Armed Forces in Greenland and consists of 35 buildings and a runway. The station is open throughout the year with about five people. During the summer, more than 20 scientists can be added. Further north are only the temporary stations Brønlundhus and Cape Harald Moltke on Jørgen - Brønlund Fjord in Pearyland.
The North station situated 1700 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle and 924 miles south of the North Pole on the Prinsessegaten Ingeborg Halvø ( Princess Ingeborg Peninsula ) in northern Kronprins Christian country. The area is part of the unincorporated territory of the Northeast Greenland National Park.
The station was built by the Danes and Americans in the period 1952 to 1956 as a weather station and telecommunications, with an airport ( a snow-covered runway with a length of 1800 meters, ICAO code BGMI ). It was needed for more accurate weather reports from the 1200 km westerly, new American Thule Air Base, but also as a basis for the Sirius Patrol. It was closed in 1972 and 1975 as a military station of Denmark reopened (Operation Brilliant Ice).
The station can be reached only by air, as ice barriers block the sea. The ice conditions would only every five to ten years allow access from the sea. However, it is also regularly approached by land from the Sirius Patrol by dogsled.
The Danish name of the station referred to their northern location in Greenland. The Danish word north is equivalent to the corresponding German word.