page_title: Icelandic Coast Guard
section_title: Radars
hierarchical_section_title: Icelandic Coast Guard / Radars
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Positionskarte von Island Quadratische Plattkarte, N-S-Streckung 230&#160;%. Geographische Begrenzung der Karte: * N: 66.8° N * S: 63.1° N * W: 25° W * O: 13° W English: Location map of Iceland Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 230&#160;%. Geographic limits of the map: * N: 66.8° N * S: 63.1° N * W: 25° W * E: 13° W
context_page_description: The Icelandic Coast Guard is the service responsible for Iceland's coastal defence and maritime and aeronautical search and rescue. Its origins can be traced to 1859, when the corvette Ørnen started patrolling Icelandic waters. In 1906, Iceland's first purposely built guard-ship, Islands Falk, began operation. Iceland's own defense of its territorial waters began around 1920 and the Icelandic Coast Guard was formally founded on 1 July 1926. The first cannon was put on the trawler Thor in 1924 and on 23 June 1926 the first ship built for the Coast Guard, named Óðinn, arrived in Iceland. Three years later, on 14 July 1929 the coastal defence ship Ægir was added to the Coast Guard fleet.
  The Icelandic Coast Guard played its largest role during the Cod Wars between 1972 and 1975, when the Coast Guard ships would cut the trawl wires of British and West German trawlers and engaged in confrontations with Royal Navy warships, in order to enforce a disputed expansion of Iceland's exclusive economic zone.
  The Coast Guard also maintains the Iceland Air Defence System which conducts ground surveillance of Iceland's air space.
context_section_description: The Iceland Air Defense System monitors Iceland's airspace. Air Defense is provided by fighter jets from NATO allies, which rotate units for the Icelandic Air Policing mission to Keflavik Air Base.
  The Iceland Air Defense System's Control and Reporting Centre is at Keflavik Air Base and reports to NATO's Integrated Air Defense System CAOC Uedem in Germany.
  Iceland Air Defense System, at Keflavik Air Base
  Control and Reporting Centre, at Keflavik Air Base
  H1 Radar Station, at Miðnesheiði, with AN/FPS-117(V)5
  H2 Radar Station, on Mount Gunnolfsvík, with AN/FPS-117(V)5
  H3 Radar Station, at Stokksnes, with AN/FPS-117(V)5
  H4 Radar Station, on Mount Bolafjalli, with AN/FPS-117(V)5
caption: Iceland Air Defense System radar stations 
   Orange pog.svg Radar station with AN/FPS-117(V)5 
   Lightgreen pog.svg Control and Reporting Centre
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