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Surface. ft. m. 04/24. 4,020. 1,219. Gravel. Oliktok Long Range Radar Site, DEW station POW-2 or NWS station A-19, is a United States Air Force radar site located 164 miles (264 km) east-southeast of Point Barrow, Alaska. The associated military airstrip is known as ( ICAO: POLI, TC LID: XWS) and is not open for public use.
Utqiagvik (/ ˌ ʊ t k i ˈ ɑː v ɪ k / UUT-kee-AH-vik; Inupiaq: Utqiaġvik, IPA: [utqe.ɑʁvik]), formerly known as Barrow (/ ˈ b ær oʊ / BARR-oh), is the borough seat and largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.
North Warning System. The North Warning System (NWS, French: Système d'alerte du nord) is a joint United States and Canadian early-warning radar system for the atmospheric air defense of North America. It provides surveillance of airspace from potential incursions or attacks from across North America's polar region.
Point Barrow Long Range Radar Site. / 71.32722°N 156.63611°W / 71.32722; -156.63611 ( Point Barrow LRRS A-17) Point Barrow Long Range Radar Site (LRR Site: A-17) is a United States Air Force radar site and military airstrip located 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Point Barrow, Alaska. It is not open for public use.
The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska, in addition to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. It was set up to detect incoming Soviet bombers ...
Point Barrow or Nuvuk is a headland on the Arctic coast in the U.S. state of Alaska, 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow). It is the northernmost point of all the territory of the United States, at 71°23′20″N 156°28′45″W, 1,122 nautical miles (1,291 mi; 2,078 km) south of the North Pole. (The northernmost point on ...
Cape Lisburne Air Force Station (AAC ID: F-07, LRR ID: A-19, DEW ID: LIZ-1) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 276.5 miles (445.0 km) west-southwest of Point Barrow, Alaska . The radar surveillance station was closed on 1 November 1983, and was re-designated as a Long Range Radar (LRR) site as ...
The Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL) was an Office of Naval Research research facility located at Point Barrow in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. The site is the present day location of Iḷisaġvik College. References