Loran Passage

Loran Passage (51˚15'00" 127˚49'00" Between Table I and Egg I, at entrance to Smith Sd, NW of Port Hardy). LORAN, an acronym for long-range navigation, is a government-operated radio navigation system that uses multiple land-based, low-frequency radio transmitters to determine the location and speed of a receiver. It was invented during WWII by US banker and physicist Alfred Lee Loomis, who also played an instrumental role in the development of radar. By the early 2000s, LORAN-C, a version of...

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