Bluie was the

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military code name for

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during

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. It is remembered by the numbered sequence of base locations identified by the 1941

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South Greenland Survey Expedition, and subsequently used in radio communications by airmen unfamiliar with pronunciation of the

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and Danish names of those locations. These were typically spoken BLUIE (direction) (number), with direction being east or west along the Greenland coast from Cape Farewell.Morison, p.62 * Bluie East One: Torgilsbu radio and weather station at near Aqissiat on Prince Christian Sound * Bluie East Two: Ikateq airfield with radio and weather station at * Bluie East Three: Gurreholm radio and weather station at Gurreholm Research Station
at geonames.org; retrieved 25 July 2021 on Scoresby Sund * Bluie East Four: Ella Island radio, weather, and sledge patrol station at * Bluie East Five: Eskimonæs radio and weather station captured by German troops in 1943 and later reestablished at Myggbukta * Bluie West One: Narsarsuaq Air Base at * Bluie West Two: Kipisako unused alternative airfield location on

Coppermine Bay Alanngorsuaq Fjord, also known as Coppermine Bay (), is a fjord in the Kujalleq municipality in southern Greenland. At the mouth of the fjord the coastline of southwestern Greenland turns to the east towards Qaqortoq. Geography Alanngorsuaq Fj ...

* Bluie West Three:

Simiutak Simiutaq, old spelling Simiutak, is an uninhabited island in the Kujalleq municipality in southwestern Greenland. During the Second World War and after Simiutak was the site of a U.S. Navy facility code-named 'Bluie West 3'. Geography Simiutaq ...

HF/DF station at * Bluie West Four: Marrak Point radio and weather station at * Bluie West Five: Aasiaat radio and weather station at on

Disko Island Disko Island (, ) is a large island in Baffin Bay, off the west coast of Greenland. It has an area of ,Bluie West Six:

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radio and weather station at * Bluie West Seven: Kangilinnguit base at to defend the Ivittuut cryolite mine * Bluie West Eight: Sondrestrom Air Base at * Bluie West Nine: Cruncher Island light and radio beacon at

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