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Old 13th Sep 2018, 22:19
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Leroy Johnson
 
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[QUOTE=SMT Member;10248341]Eh, no. Søndre Strømfjord, along with all other villages and places in Greenland, have had their Danish names replaced by Greenlandic ditto. Thus Søndre Strømfjord is now Kangerlussuaq. 'Bluie West 8' ceased to be in 1992, when the airport was handed over to Greenland for civilian use. Thus, the naming sequence is Bluie West 8 -> Søndre Strømfjord -> Kangerlussuaq. IATA code is SFJ, ICAO is BGSF - they weren't changed.

I flew into BGSF from 1968 to 1972 and the only name we knew was Søndre Strømfjord. That was what was on the approach plates we used. I later learned that around the WW II period the Bluie West names were used in Greenland but I don't know when that was dropped. I know that Inuit names are being used in Greenland and apparently Northern Canada but I also don't know when that began.
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