Denmark and the Faroe Islands reached an agreement on Thursday to set up an air surveillance radar on the archipelago to help bolster Arctic security and close a longstanding surveillance gap in the North Atlantic. “The strategic position of the Faroe Islands in the GIUK-gap is a major aspect of our security considerations.” (GIUK is an acronym for Greenland-Iceland-United-Kingdom. A statement from the government of the Faroe Islands said the the radar will help close lingering air space surveillance gaps between the Faroe Islands, Norway, Iceland and the United Kingdom. Some 390 million Danish kroner ($70.5 million CDN) was included in the package for the Faroe Islands radar project. Thursday’s agreement comes the day after Denmark signed a bilateral agreement with Iceland to exchange surveillance data in order to bolster Arctic awareness.

Source: CBC News June 10, 2022 20:58 UTC