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    CFS Resolution Island (BAF-5) is a short-range radar site. It is located 593 miles (954 km) north-northwest of CFB Goose Bay, Labrador on Resolution Island...
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    Button, after his own ship, the Resolution. The island was home to an American military base, now CFS Resolution Island, that became operational in 1954...
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    Alert (French: Station des Forces canadiennes Alert), often shortened to CFS Alert (SFC Alert), is a signals intelligence intercept facility of the Canadian...
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  • Canadian islands as ordered by area. It includes all 50 islands with an area greater than 1,000 km2 (390 sq mi). The total area of these islands is 1,545...
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    CFS Beausejour CFS Churchill CFS Flin Flon CFS Gypsumville New Brunswick: CFS Coverdale CFS Renous CFS St. Margarets Nova Scotia: CFS Barrington CFS Debert...
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  • Canadian Forces Station Debert (also CFS Debert) was a Canadian Forces station located in Debert, Nova Scotia. It was most recently used during the Cold...
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    comm systems: BMEWS Rearward Long-Lines System at CFS Resolution Island[unreliable source?] and CFS Saglek,[unreliable source?] (cf. Pole Vault system...
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    336495; -75.587504 Canadian Forces Station Leitrim, also referred to as CFS Leitrim, is a Canadian Forces Station located in the neighbourhood of Leitrim...
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    seaboard from the southern tip of Nova Scotia to the southern tip of Baffin Island. Of these, 22 of the main stations and all of the gap fillers were paid...
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  • 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...
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    Cape Dyer" ("BMEWS Rearward Long-Lines System" stations were at CFS Resolution Island & CFS Saglek.) President Dwight D. Eisenhower was notified on 23 April...
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  • were renamed to become separate Canadian Forces Stations using the prefix "CFS". However, in the case of RCAF Station St. Margarets, the facility's proximity...
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    Diefenbunker (redirect from CFS Carp)
    formerly known by its military designation, Canadian Forces Station Carp (CFS Carp), is a large underground four-storey reinforced concrete bunker and...
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    King William Island (French: Île du Roi-Guillaume; previously: King William Land; Inuktitut: Qikiqtaq) is an island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut...
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    Station Ladner. The downsizing associated with unification would soon hit CFS Ladner, and in 1971 it was permanently closed. Following the closure of the...
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    Alert, Nunavut (category Ellesmere Island)
    intelligence radio receiving facility at Canadian Forces Station Alert (CFS Alert, which includes Alert Airport), as well as the Dr. Neil Trivett Global...
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    CFS Barrington Canadian Forces Station Barrington, also referred to as CFS Barrington, was a Canadian Forces Station located in the unincorporated community...
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    Long Range Radar surveillance gaps. ^a Location approximate due to low-resolution aerial imagery of area. ^b Site location obliterated by snow cover. Canadian...
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    Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Shelburne is a former Canadian Forces Station that was a shore terminus for the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) from 1955...
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  • station located on Baffin Island at what is now Iqaluit, Nunavut. It opened in July 1954 and closed on July 11, 1966. CFS Alert Nanisivik Naval Facility...
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    stationed at Camp Hazen and Tanquary Fiord Airport. Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert is the northernmost continuously inhabited settlement in the world...
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  • Canadian Forces Station Falconbridge (CFS Falconbridge) was a military radar station in the Canadian province of Ontario, active from 1952 to 1985. The...
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    Kugong Island, Tukarak Island, and Innetalling Island. Other main islands in the 1,500–island archipelago are Moore Island, Wiegand Island, Split Island, Snape...
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  • Summerside) was an air force base located in St. Eleanors, Prince Edward Island, Canada, now part of the city of Summerside. The airfield was constructed...
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    often connected to the telephone to feed CBC-TV news to CHAR-FM in isolated CFS Alert. More recently, CANDAC has installed what is likely the world's most...
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  • Squadron, RCAF Station Beaverlodge, became simply Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Beaverlodge in 1966. Also in 1966, the facilities at Larson AFB were closed...
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    military-operated radio communications receiver station linked by land line to CFS Carp located in Burnt Lands alvar off Lanark County Road 49 East of Almonte...
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  • Canadian Forces Station Dana (CFS Dana) was a military radar station 35 miles east of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in the Rural Municipality of Bayne, Saskatchewan...
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    north coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska (see Project Stretchout and Project Bluegrass), in addition to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. It...
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  • Canadian Forces Station Bermuda, commonly shortened to CFS Bermuda and popularly known as Daniel's Head (due to its location on Daniel's Head), was a...
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