On 22 January 1968 a B-52 crashed 11 km (7 mi) south of Pituffik Space Base.
Nuclear bombs were lost and debris scattered over the area in the accident.
This process of population concentration in the towns is observed through all of Greenland.
Annoatok, once a small hunting station, was slightly further north (at 78°33'N) and about 24 km (15 mi) from Etah.
It borders on Upernavik Municipality on the south, on the unincorporated area of the Northeast Greenland National Park on the east, on the Arctic Ocean on the north, and on the Nares Strait, which separates North Greenland from Ellesmere Island of Nunavut, Canada on the west.