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    The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada...
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  • Distant Early Warning may refer to: Distant Early Warning Line, a series of radar stations in the Arctic, operated during the Cold War by the United States...
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    Low SCR-270 AN/CPS-1 CXAM radar Freya radar Pinetree Line Mid-Canada Line Distant Early Warning Line Duga radar BMEWS AMES Type 80 AMES Type 84 AMES Type...
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    attacks from across North America's polar region. It replaced the Distant Early Warning Line system in the late 1980s. The NWS consists of both long range...
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    Constellation was used to serve as an airborne early warning system to supplement the Distant Early Warning Line, using two large radomes (a vertical dome...
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    aircraft control and warning (AC&W) system along Alaska's coast and interior. The Alaskan segment of the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) was built, and...
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    runway in 1953 to support the Distant Early Warning Line Radar station at Barter Island (BAR-MAIN). The Barter Island DEW Line station was operated by civilian...
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  • 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...
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  • 1955 Cape Lisburne became part of the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line), the most westernmost station on the line which stretched east across the northern...
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    near Gordon's trading post. Starting in March 1953, a runway and Distant Early Warning Line radar station were built on the island by Western Electric Company...
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  • DYE Stations were Distant Early Warning Line sites of the DEW Line eastern extension in Arctic North America in Greenland (DEW Greenland Extension, "DEW...
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    the Distant Early Warning Line in Alaska and, as an expert[according to whom?] in Arctic engineering,[citation needed] served as a consultant in early oil...
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    Islands. Edinburgh Island, PIN-DA, is a former Distant Early Warning Line and a current North Warning System site. "Edinburgh Island". Geographical Names...
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    airstrip was built by US defense in 1956, in order to support a Distant Early Warning Line station. The defense station was closed in 1991. Many remnants...
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    such as Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W), Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) and Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), to command and...
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  • during the Cold War. It was notably involved in building the Distant Early Warning Line, and is now involved in decommissioning it. It also became involved...
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    ice core site and previously part of the DYE section of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line, located at (65°11′N 43°49′W / 65.183°N 43.817°W / 65.183;...
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    (266 sq mi). Bray Island was the home of FOX-A, a Distant Early Warning Line and now a North Warning System site. However, Bray Island has no permanent...
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    tip. A Distant Early Warning Line site is also located on the northern tip of the peninsula, that switched operations in 1989 to the North Warning System...
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  • Deer Park Airport (Washington), FAA location identifier DEW Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line), network of American radar stations Directed-energy weapons...
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    Although the island is uninhabited there is both an unmanned Distant Early Warning Line base, called FOX-1 at 69°04′01″N 079°03′54″W / 69.06694°N 79...
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    Takuligjuaq. Loks Land was the site of one of the stations in the Distant Early Warning Line radar defence network, and had the code number BAF-4A. The island...
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    scatter communication sites. It was an expansion of the former Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line). NARS was built for the United States Air Force (USAF) by...
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    not open for public use. The site built in 1957 to support the Distant Early Warning Line radar station at Point Barrow (POW-MAIN), which logistically supported...
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    Airport that was located at the Distant Early Warning Line. The airport was listed as abandoned after the closure of the DEW line site. It is named for the...
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    the contract to transport construction material to build the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW) in far northern Alaska and Canada. At the time, no roads...
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    of CAM-1A (Jenny Lind Island), a former Distant Early Warning Line site and home to the unmanned North Warning System site. Characteristics of the terrain...
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  • was formerly the site of the Icy Cape DEW Line Station, a United States Air Force Distant Early Warning Line Radar station Icy Cape appeared on the 1880...
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  • since the end of World War II, including construction of the Distant Early Warning Line of radars and the creation of the North American Aerospace Defence...
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    transit in the post-war period. When the Distant Early Warning Line was constructed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Sondrestrom AB received a new lease...
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