Scandinavophilately
When I think of SAS, it's usually the Statistical Analysis System I have in mind. But there are about 50 other meanings. (Not everyone likes the word disambiguation, but I think it's helpful in cases like this!) One meaning of SAS is the Scandinavian Airlines System . I bring this up because my father was a scandinavophile. Below is his hand-drawn map of Greenland. On the southern part of the West coast of Greenland is a place with the Danish name Søndre Strømfjord (Kangerlussuaq in the Kalaallisut language). If you look closely, it's marked by a little red mark (it's an airplane symbol) on the map about a quarter of the way up from the bottom. Søndre Strømfjord has a fascinating aerospace history that began in 1941 with the establishment of a U.S. air base and has continued right up to the present day. Hey, it's only 3 hours to the North Pole! Part of the history of Søndre Strømfjord is described (in rather grandiose language) on the SAS website: Polar explorat...