Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Unst HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No Activities <p>Tours.</p><p>Interpretation will be provided by local expert Leslie Smith.</p> OpeningTime1 Pre-booked tours only 11.00, 14.00 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 8986 Refreshments No Street The street address Skaw Postcode ZE2 9EF Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WW2 Chain Home Radar Station Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived shetland Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 3424 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.86362,-4.261207; Description An account of the resource <p>The Chain Home Radar Stations were part of Britain's Air Defence System during the Second World War. Acting as an early warning system, there were 170 stations covering the whole of the UK. Skaw is of the original Chain Home design (other station-types were the Chain Home Low and Chain Home Extra Low). Most effective at tracking aircraft at 15-20,000 ft, it could detect aircraft at 100 miles or more given suitable atmospheric conditions. Extensive site with many structures surviving. </p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1940