Page "Transport in Greenland" Paragraph 1

While Germany occupied Denmark during World War II, the United States controlled Greenland and built airports there.

The airports were codenamed Bluie West One through to Bluie West Eight on the west of the island and Bluie East One to Bluie East Four on the eastern side.

The largest of those airports, Bluie West Eight, now renamed Kangerlussuaq Airport, remains the international hub for travel to Greenland, as it is the only airport that has a large enough runway to service jumbo jets.

American authorities at one time entertained the idea of building a road from Kangerlussuaq to the second-largest airport, in Narsarsuaq, several hundred kilometres to the south.

The idea was abandoned after feasibility studies failed to prove it was possible.