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Radar Site
Alaska USA

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Northern lights 0ver Radar Dome
U.S.A.F. Radar Site Murpy's Dome
image by: MSgt. William Burroughs 1972/73
Aurora Borealis
Luminous bands or streamers of light that are sometimes visible in the night skies of northern regions and are thought to be caused by the ejection of charged particles into the magnetic field of the earth.
Also called northern lights.
This site was located about 25 miles north-west of Fairbanks Alaska.
It had two Height finder radars, radios and a control center operated by Air Force service men.
It also had a Search radar operated by the FAA.
All maintance men lived on site and the FAA had family housing on the site.
For the Air Force, it was an unacomplied tour of aproximatly 13 months.

Fairbanks
A city in central Alaska, on the Chena River. Fairbanks is the second largest city in Alaska and the commercial and administrative heart of the state's interior.
It has a population of 30,840+ . Fairbanks is a service center for the mineral development of the Alaskan far north.
Also important to the city's economy are the University of Alaska at Fairbanks (1917) and nearby Fort Wainwright and Eielson Air Force Base.
The city was founded in 1902 with the discovery of gold nearby and grew as a mining camp.

Alaska
A state of the United States in the
extreme northwest North America,
separated from the other mainland
states by British Colombia, Canada
It was admitted as the 49th state in 1959
and is the largest state of the Union.
Juneau is the capital and Anchorage the largest city.
Population 551,940+.

Updated 06-23-04

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