Former FOX-D DEW Line Radar Site

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Built in the early 1950's as an "I" or Intermediate site in the FOX Sector of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, the FOX-D or Kivitoo site was declared operational in 1957. Equipped with a single AN/FPS-23 radar system mounted atop a 100ft high mast, the site's mission was to provide "gap filler" low-level radar coverage between the Long Range Radar Sites at FOX-5 at Broughton Island and FOX-4 at Cape Hooper. Manned by four staff year-round, the site was equipped with a short airfield near the Inuit village of Kivitoo which could accommodate a DC-3 carrying a light load of supplies and personnel for the station, though winter weather conditions at the site often warranted resupply to be carried out by means of air drops from Avro York aircraft.

As with the rest of the DEW Line's "gap filler" Intermediate Sites, FOX-D was rendered obsolete by advances in the capabilities of the nearby Long Range Sites, and with its radar system already notoriously difficult to maintain the US Air Force ordered the site shut down in 1963. Essentially abandoned to the elements thereafter, the site was eventually demolished and environmentally remediated in the early 2000's.

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