GIUK gap

The game mainly focuses on combat in the GIUK Gap.

Went right out into the Atlantic, right up to the GIUK Gap.

Whats the GIUK Gap?

We were only here for a couple of weekswent right out into the Atlanticright up to the GIUK Gap.

The GIUK gap is an area in the northern Atlantic Ocean that forms a naval choke point.

Thus I think we should have patrols organized around Iceland and right across the GIUK Gap.

Early editions of the Harpoon naval warfare simulation were based around defending the GIUK Gap.

The sub had been ordered to begin patrolling near the Faeroe Islands, along the vaguely defined line of the GIUK gap.

GIUK gap (between Greenland, Iceland, and UK)

The location gave access to the Atlantic Ocean, by-passing the Royal Navy's defensive lines organised along the GIUK gap.

The GIUK gap is also a route for migratory birds such as the northern wheatear to cross the Atlantic to reach Greenland and eastern Canada.

North Atlantic Radio System (NARS) is a similar system used in the GIUK gap area.

The nearest air base we've got is Keflavik in Iceland, and that's just not enough to close the GIUK gap, much less help out in Norway.

A system like this SOSUS was deployed by the USA in the GIUK gap and other strategically important places.

During the course of the Cold War, the Royal Navy transformed into a primarily anti-submarine force, hunting for Soviet submarines, mostly active in the GIUK gap.

The Soviets planned to use the GIUK gap to intercept any NATO ships, especially aircraft carriers, heading towards the Soviet Union.

The American destroyer USS Bedford (DLG-113) detects a Soviet submarine in the GIUK gap near the Greenland coast.

This position provides for rapid and stealthy access through the North Channel to the patrolling areas in the North Atlantic, through the GIUK gap to the Norwegian Sea.

Icelandic NATO membership and hosting of US military had considerable importance to Cold War strategy due to Iceland's location in the middle of the GIUK gap.

With Chevaline, the patrol area was limited to the north of and just around the GIUK gap, whereas previously they could operate within an area to the south of the Gap as well.

On 23 November 1939, while on "Northern Patrol" guarding the GIUK gap, HMS Rawalpindi engaged in battle against the German small battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

Most of the men in the room seemed to favor withdrawing from Norway, possibly setting up some kind of barrier along the GIUK gap, from Greenland to Iceland to the United Kingdom.

The GIUK gap was also a strategically important part of the Cold War, as the Royal Navy were given the responsibility of keeping an eye on Soviet submarines trying to break into the open Atlantic.

The GIUK gap again became the focus of naval planning in the 1950s, as it represented the only available outlet into the Atlantic Ocean for Soviet submarines operating from their bases on the Kola Peninsula.

Beginning in 1984, the 932d Air Control Squadron established a Radar Operations Control Center at Keflavik which coordinated the 57th FIS interceptors to contacts passing though the GIUK gap.