It is about 924 km (574 mi) from the geographic North Pole, on Princess Ingeborg Peninsula (Danish: Prinsesse Ingeborg Halvø) in northern Kronprins Christian Land, making it the second northernmost permanent settlement and base of the Northeast Greenland National Park and of Greenland as a whole (two stations in Peary Land further north, Brønlundhus and Kap Harald Moltke, are not permanently occupied).

During that summer, an expansion of the gravel strip was carried out, a team of 41 Danes was sent to construct facilities, and the finished weather station was in operation on 1 October.

The major reason for the reduction in the United States Air Force's plans was that resupply of the station was difficult and expensive.

It was very important for the Danish government to preempt a permanent U.S. presence, and for that reason Denmark assumed responsibility for Nord's operation and refused an American offer for a lease on the station.

By the time of the end of the United States' responsibilities, Nord had a 6,200-foot (1,900 m) runway (elevation 80), a non-directional beacon, a meteorological observatory for synoptic and radiosonde observations, and a seismic station.

The original station was built by "Grønlands Televæsen" for the United States during the period of 1952 to 1956 as a weather and telecommunications site with a runway, International Civil Aviation Organization code BGMI.

In April 1971, the United States Air Force announced it would cease sending goods and fuel from Thule to Station Nord.

[1] Without support from the United States, the government of Denmark decided to close the station as the relevant agencies considered it too expensive to run.

[2] Located very close to the Flade Isblink ice cap, the station features a very cold polar tundra climate (ET) with average temperatures just a few degrees above freezing in the midst of the short summer.