Former FOX-2 DEW Line Radar Site

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Activated in 1957 as an Long Range Radar Auxiliary Site in the FOX Sector of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, the FOX-2 or Longstaff Bluff radar site was at its peak a sprawling 4,169 acre facility spread along the shoreline of Foxe Basin. Tasked with monitoring the airspace between FOX-MAIN at Hall Beach to the West and FOX-3 at Dewar Lakes to the East against Soviet air attack, FOX-2 was initially supported by two Intermediate "gap filler" sites at Bray Island and Nudluardjk Lake until their deactivation in 1963.

Remaining active for 34 years in its DEW Line role, the FOX-2 site was deactivated in 1991 when its co-located North Warning System Short Range Radar site came online. With the new NWS station being a totally automated facility, the DEW-era buildings and support structures were rendered superfluous and were sealed up pending eventual demolition and site remediation.

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