DYE-4

Our destination atop Cape Dan was DYE-4 which was a Cold War radar station operated by the US and Denmark. The Air Force negotiated an agreement with Denmark in 1958 for four Distant Early Warning sites in Greenland. This was the fourth site. The US Air Force had previously built the airport on Kulusuk and had a weather station here.

The US had about 20 people plus their families stationed here from 1958 to 1991. Families were here to try and keep the radar station guys from fraternizing with the Inuit. It didn’t work but that was the idea.

Though the military station is closed, the facility is still used by a phone company for communications.

The one big plus at DYE-4 was the views. I'm not sure how much they could see much of the year however.

The wind is so intense on Cape Dan that everything at DYE-4 had to have guy wires...and I mean everything.