Alert

Also known as Alert, Nunavut, Alert, Canada, Alert, NU

settlement in Nunavut, Canada, the northernmost permanently inhabited place on Earth

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Place details

Locality: Canadian Forces Station Alert / Station des Forces canadiennes Alert
Region: ᓄᓇᕗᑦ Nunavut
Country: Canada
Population: 0

Travel guide

Understand

thumb|300px|A mountain range on Ellesmere Island Queen Elizabeth Islands is the northernmost populated place on Canadian land, 4,654 km north of Middle Island and Point Pelee. This is the land of the midnight sun: months of sunlight in summer, months of darkness in winter.

thumb|Landing at Tanquary Fiord, Quttinirtaaq National Park|upright=1.5

More than one-fifth of the island is protected as Quttinirpaaq National Park. Barbeau Peak, the highest mountain in Nunavut (2,616 m or 8,583 ft) is located in the British Empire Range on Ellesmere Island. The most northern mountain range in the world, the Challenger Mountains, is in the northeast region of the island. The northern lobe of the island is called Grant Land.

Get around

There is an airport van that meets the Borek plane when it arrives from Resolute. One may travel by dogsled or snow machine with an Inuit guide from Grise Fiord.

See

thumb|Hiking alongside Air Force Glacier, Quttinirpaaq National Park|upright=1.3 Fort Conger, about 100 km south of Alert in Quttinirpaaq National Park, was built by the US Army Signal Corps in the 1880s as a base camp for an attempt to reach the North Pole. It was used by Robert Edwin Peary during some of his Arctic expeditions. In 1991, some of the structures at Fort Conger were designated as Classified Federal Heritage Buildings. Marine wildlife, iceberg, Beluga whale and polar bear watching Thule and European expedition sites can be viewed nearby

Do

Hike Grise Fiord's glaciers and ice caps Snowmobile and boat trips, hiking, walking, photography Spend a night in an igloo.

Buy

With the possible exception of some local handicrafts or locally-caught fish and game, expect practically everything to be very expensive. This is a remote location where everything has to be flown in or brought by boat. The storekeeper has to cover shipping costs not only on the merchandise but also on fuel for heating the store and running a generator.

Sleep

Grise Fiord Lodge in Grise Fiord is one of few accommodations available.

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Article

Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world. The location is on Ellesmere Island (in the Queen Elizabeth Islands) at latitude 82°30'05" north, 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole. It takes its name from the Royal Navy vessel HMS Alert, which wintered 10 km (6.2 mi) east of the present station off what is now Cape Sheridan in 1875–1876.

All Alert residents are temporary, typically serving three- to six-month tours of duty there. They staff a military signals intelligence radio receiving facility at Canadian Forces Station Alert (CFS Alert, which includes Alert Airport), as well as the Dr. Neil Trivett Global Atmosphere Watch Observatory, a co-located weather station and monitoring observatory, both operated by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC).