It is located 593 miles (954 km) north-northwest of CFB Goose Bay, Labrador on Resolution Island, Nunavut.

During the Cold War, it was operated as part of the Pinetree Line network controlled by NORAD.

As a result of the Cold War and with the expansion of a North American continental air defense system, Resolution Island was selected as a site for a United States Air Force (USAF) radar station, one of the many that would make up the Pinetree Line of Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) radar sites.

The station (MF Marine) was then moved to Killinek (NWT/Nunavut), on the south shore of the Hudson Strait.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency