Former BAR-C DEW Line Radar Site
Canada /
Northwest Territories /
Aklavik /
World
/ Canada
/ Northwest Territories
/ Aklavik
World / Canada / Northwest Territories / Inuvik
abandoned / shut down, early warning radar
Built in the mid-1950's as an Intermediate or "I" site in the BAR Sector of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, the BAR-C or Tununuk Camp site was a short-range "gap filler" radar site built to cover low-altitude gaps in the radar coverage of the Long Range Radar Sites of BAR-2 at Shingle Point to the West and BAR-3 at Tuktoyaktuk to the East. Staffed year-round by a crew of only five personnel, the site was equipped with an AN/FPS-23 radar system mounted atop a 200ft tower located alongside the short gravel airstrip built to resupply the site.
Advances in radar coverage technology at the Long Range sites led to the service provided by BAR-C's radar system to become redundant, and as a result BAR-C joined the rest of the Intermediate "gap filler" filler system sites in shutting down its operations at the end of the 1963 Summer season. Left largely abandoned for the next thirty years, the site was eventually reused for oil exploration before being completely razed in the late 1990's. The site is presently awaiting full environmental remediation, while its gravel airstrip sees occasional use by oil exploration aircraft.
lswilson.dewlineadventures.com/barc.htm
Advances in radar coverage technology at the Long Range sites led to the service provided by BAR-C's radar system to become redundant, and as a result BAR-C joined the rest of the Intermediate "gap filler" filler system sites in shutting down its operations at the end of the 1963 Summer season. Left largely abandoned for the next thirty years, the site was eventually reused for oil exploration before being completely razed in the late 1990's. The site is presently awaiting full environmental remediation, while its gravel airstrip sees occasional use by oil exploration aircraft.
lswilson.dewlineadventures.com/barc.htm
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DEW_Line_Sites
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 69°0'21"N 134°40'19"W
- Exxon Point Thomson Unit 3 467 km
- Kuparuk River Unit Mine Site B 587 km
- Kuparuk River Unit Mine D 599 km
- Colville 1 620 km
- Peard Bay Airport (WQJ) 918 km
- Icy Cape Airport (2AK8) 1055 km
- Cape Sabine Airport (Z53) 1153 km
- Former station RNS (Radio-navigation and tracking). Abandoned. 1645 km
- Iultin Airport 1764 km
- Iultin 1769 km
- Lower Island 6.3 km
- Caribou Hills 36 km
- Williams Island 38 km
- Parsons Lake 41 km
- Lake Tagle 46 km
- Hadven Island 70 km
- Pingo National Landmark 75 km
- Sitidgi Lake 96 km
- Lake Itkrilek 123 km
- Lake Rufus 195 km