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A view of the sun low in the sky taken near the disbanded DEW station at Johansen Bay, Victoria Island
A view of the sun low in the sky taken near the disbanded Distant Early Warning (DEW) radar station at Ross Point, Johansen Bay, Victoria Island.
PIN-D is a former DEW Line Site located on the north shore of Johansen Bay, overlooking Coronation Gulf, approximately 500 metres from the coast in Nunavut. This DEW line site station was constructed in 1959 by the Department of National Defence, and was deactivated in 1963 at which point it was abandoned.
Ivy Sharp noted in her account for 29 July 1996: 'We had to negotiate a very high hill of shale to the site that had been the dewline (early warning system) but the mess they left behind was a disgrace to any country. Stacks of rusted tins and other detritus were just scattered around.' Since she wrote this the site has undergone decontamination work.
PIN-D is a former DEW Line Site located on the north shore of Johansen Bay, overlooking Coronation Gulf, approximately 500 metres from the coast in Nunavut. This DEW line site station was constructed in 1959 by the Department of National Defence, and was deactivated in 1963 at which point it was abandoned.
Ivy Sharp noted in her account for 29 July 1996: 'We had to negotiate a very high hill of shale to the site that had been the dewline (early warning system) but the mess they left behind was a disgrace to any country. Stacks of rusted tins and other detritus were just scattered around.' Since she wrote this the site has undergone decontamination work.
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Object details
| ID: | PM11784/23 |
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| Collection: | Historic Photographs |
| Type: | Roll film negative |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Sharp, Ivy |
| Date made: | 29 July 1996 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Ivy Sharp Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 25 mm x 36 mm |