Radar Passage

Radar Passage (51˚18'00" 127˚49'00" Between Brown I and Cluster Reefs, entrance to Smith Sd, NW of Port Hardy). Named in 1948 for the innovative technology of radar, which was still fairly new at that date. Radar uses electromagnetic waves to identify the range, altitude, direction and speed of moving or fixed objects. The term, coined in 1941, is an acronym for “radio detection and ranging” but has since entered the language as a standard word. WWII greatly spurred the development of...

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