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Northernmost midnight Mass celebrates Jesus’ Nativity.
Located 947 miles from the North Pole in northwest Greenland, the Pituffik Space Base is the northernmost installation of the U.S. armed forces.
Once a hunting village for the Greenlandic Inuit, Pituffik lies in the Arctic tundra where winter temperatures plunge to -20°F. Separated by 75 miles from the nearest town, Qaanaaq, it is defined by its extreme isolation. In addition, during the long winter months, the sun never rises.
Not far from the geomagnetic North Pole, the U.S. Space Base is strategically placed for “space surveillance, satellite control, and early missile detection,” Father John Reutemann, an active-duty chaplain in the U.S. Air Force, currently stationed in Osan, South Korea, told the Register.
The base works with “early” missile detection, he explained, “because any missiles coming to the U.S. from Russia or China would likely fly over the Arctic.”
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Located 947 miles from the North Pole in northwest Greenland, the Pituffik Space Base is the northernmost installation of the U.S. armed forces.
Once a hunting village for the Greenlandic Inuit, Pituffik lies in the Arctic tundra where winter temperatures plunge to -20°F. Separated by 75 miles from the nearest town, Qaanaaq, it is defined by its extreme isolation. In addition, during the long winter months, the sun never rises.
Not far from the geomagnetic North Pole, the U.S. Space Base is strategically placed for “space surveillance, satellite control, and early missile detection,” Father John Reutemann, an active-duty chaplain in the U.S. Air Force, currently stationed in Osan, South Korea, told the Register.
The base works with “early” missile detection, he explained, “because any missiles coming to the U.S. from Russia or China would likely fly over the Arctic.”
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Christmas at the Edge of the World
Northernmost midnight Mass celebrates Jesus’ Nativity.
