Alert (Nunavut)

The Military Base Alert, located at 82 ° 28 ' north latitude, is the northernmost permanently occupied human settlement on earth. Surrounded by hills, the base is in the area of the Canadian territory of Nunavut on Ellesmere Island in the Bay Dumbell Bay Lincoln Sea ( Arctic Ocean). The coast is characterized by shale deposits there. Is named the place after the expedition ship HMS Alert by George Nares, the first the northernmost point of Ellesmere Island, the Cape Columbia reached.

Alert has an airfield, see airfield Alert.

The settlement was inhabited in 2006 by five people, in 2001 there were still 75 people. It consists of a military camp of the Canadian Army, one of Canadian and U.S. military jointly operated weather station and a website maintained by the GAW observatory for the Earth's atmosphere. As a military zone alert and its surroundings not in the Quttinirpaaq National Park (formerly Ellesmere Iceland National Park Reserve ) is included. Access to the area is strictly prohibited without written permission.

The weather station was established in 1950; In 1958 the military camp.

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