Guarding Greenland by Mads Nissen

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An aerial view of a snowy landscape South of Thule Air Base. Thule Air Base was established as an American military base in 1951 and is the US Air Force's northernmost base. During the cold War it employed over 10,000 people, mainly serving as a landing and refuelling strip for American bombers, lying halfway between the US and the Soviet Union's industrial heartland via the North Pole. Today, around 550 people work at the base with another 400 Danish and Greenlandic civilian staff.
An aerial view of a snowy landscape South of Thule Air Base. Thule Air Base was established as an American military base in 1951 and is the US Air Force's northernmost base. During the cold War it employed over 10,000 people, mainly serving as a landing and refuelling strip for American bombers, lying halfway between the US and the Soviet Union's industrial heartland via the North Pole. Today, around 550 people work at the base with another 400 Danish and Greenlandic civilian staff.