Etymology

Pituffik

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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Borrowed from Inuktitut Literally, “mooring place”

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.