Amidst the rocky peaks, on a plateau near an Inuit settlement called Ikateq, the United States had built an airstrip. It had been designed to serve as a refueling station for military aircraft flying from America to Europe during World War II.
And it’s still there, slowly crumbling into dust. Construction began on the airstrip, known as Bluie East Two, in 1942. A year earlier, America had taken over the defense of Greenland and started scouting for sites to place a 5,000-foot runway.
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