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Welcome at PINTOMAP, the geographic web search engine for location related services and information. For a start the current prototype includes more than 245,000 articles from Wikipedia that are displayed on Google Maps via Pins, there is more to come.
About PINTOMAP Thule Air Base (Americas / Northern America / Greenland)}} Qaanaaq (Americas / Northern America / Greenland)Qaanaaq (pronounced (IPA) ) is a town and municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is the only town and the only municipality in the county of North Greenland (Avannaa). Pituffik (Americas / Northern America / Greenland)Pituffik (approximately ) was the northernmost hunting village of the Greenlandic Inuit until the United States was given permission to build Thule Air Base in 1951. By 1953, all residents of Pituffik and nearby Dundas had been forced to move 130 km north to the new town of Qaanaaq, commonly known at the time as "New Thule". Latitude and longitude of cities (Americas / Northern America / Greenland){| class="wikitable" Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (Americas / Northern America / Greenland)The United States Air Force Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) was the first operational ballistic missile detection radar. The original system was built in 1959 and could provide long-range warning of a ballistic missile attack over the polar region of the northern hemisphere. North Pole (Americas / Northern America / Greenland)When not otherwise qualified, the term North Pole usually refers to the Geographic North Pole – the northernmost point on the surface of the Earth, where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface. Other "North Poles" include: | ||