Pituffik
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Pituffik
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Borrowed from Inuktitut Literally, “mooring place”
proper noun
- A former village in Greenland, North America, of Denmark, on North Star Bay, Wolstenholme Fjord, off Bylot Sound, Baffin Bay, Arctic Ocean. A former settlement in northern Greenland, since the 1950s the site of a United States aerospace base.
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Ellipsis of Pituffik Base: A military base in Pituffik, Greenland.
Similar: Pituffik Space Base, Pituffik Air Base, Pituffik NORAD Base, Pituffik NATO Base, Pituffik Air Force Base, Pituffik Space Force Base, Thule, Thule Air Base, Thule Space Base, Thule NORAD Base, Thule NATO Base, Thule Air Force Base
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Talk about this word "Pituffik." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pituffik. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. Pituffik. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pituffik "Pituffik." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pituffik.Cite this
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title = {Pituffik},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pituffik},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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