Pingarssuit Mountain (P-Mountain, colloq.) is a Greenland landform near

Pituffik Space Base Pituffik Space Base ( ; ) , formerly Thule Air Base ( or ), is the United States Space Force's northernmost base, and the northernmost installation of the U.S. Armed Forces, located north of the Arctic Circle and from the North Pole on the no ...

and which has a United States Space Force military installation.

History

During the

Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...

, Thule Site N-32 on P-Mountain had a US Army Air Defense Command Post for Project Nike to control the 4 missile sites in the area (the USAF also had a radar at the site for control of aircraft traffic in the area.) A late 1960s satellite communications terminal was moved from the Thule P-Mountain site to Thule Site J in 1983.

References

{{coord, 76.402, -68.727, type:mountain_region:GL, display=title Mountains of Greenland