Distant early warning systems in the North American Arctic

The Distant Early Warning System (DEWLine) is a network of radar and communications stations stretching for some 3600 miles along the 69th parallel from Cape Lisburne, Alaska, to Cape Dyer, Baffin Island, and continuing across Davis Strait and the Greenland ice sheet to the east coast of Greenland....

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Chasen, Robert E.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1967
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Arctic
Baffin Island
Greenland
Foxe Basin
Dyer
Cape Dyer
Baffin
Davis Strait
Ice Sheet
Iceland
North Atlantic
Polar Record
Thule
Alaska
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400058149
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400058149
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Summary:The Distant Early Warning System (DEWLine) is a network of radar and communications stations stretching for some 3600 miles along the 69th parallel from Cape Lisburne, Alaska, to Cape Dyer, Baffin Island, and continuing across Davis Strait and the Greenland ice sheet to the east coast of Greenland. Thence it maintains communication with the North Atlantic Radio System from Keflavfk, Iceland, to Fylingdales Moor, England. The DEWDrop system, a tropospheric scatter communications system links Cape Dyer with the Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile Station at Thule, Greenland and another connects Thule with the DEWLine station FOX, on Foxe Basin. DEWLine stations are supervised and controlled by the US Air Force, by agreement with the Canadian and Danish Governments.

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