Alert
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Place details
- Locality
- Canadian Forces Station Alert / Station des Forces canadiennes Alert
- Region
- ᓄᓇᕗᑦ Nunavut
- Country
- Canada
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Country
- Canada
- Territory
- Nunavut
- Region
- Qikiqtaaluk
- Established
- April 9, 1950
- Total
- 55.173 sq mi (142.898 km )
- Elevation
- 100 ft (30 m)
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 (EDT)
- Gnbc code
- OAAQK
- Website
- www.canada.ca/en/air-force/corporate/alert.html
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Inception
- 9 April 1950
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- weather station
- Named after
- HMS Alert
- Official name
- Alert
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Qikiqtaaluk Region
- Population
- +62
- Elevation
- +30.48
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Body of water
- Lincoln Sea
- Owned by
- Meteorological Service of Canada
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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).