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Qaanaaq (Thule) is the northernmost Greenland geomagnetic observatory and member of INTERMAGNET. It is operated by the National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU, Denmark).
The instruments include a DI-fluxgate magnetometer (DI-flux), a proton precession magnetometer (EDA type PPM-105), and three-component fluxgate variometers.
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