Alert
Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world. The location is on Ellesmere Island at latitude 82°30'05" north, 817 km from the North Pole.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Meteorological station
- Description: settlement in Nunavut, Canada, the northernmost permanently inhabited place on Earth
- Also known as: “Alert, Canada”, “Alert, NU”, and “Alert, Nunavut”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Alert Airport and Canadian Forces Station Alert.
Alert Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: US Mission Canada, CC BY 2.0.
Alert Airport is located at Alert, Nunavut, Canada, approximately 830 km south of the true North Pole. It is operated by the Canadian Department of National Defence and is part of Canadian Forces Station Alert.
Canadian Forces Station Alert
Military installation
Photo: Dansk59, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Canadian Forces Station Alert, often shortened to CFS Alert, is a signals intelligence intercept facility of the Canadian Armed Forces at Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Canadian Forces Station Alert is situated 1 km north of Alert.
Alert
- Categories: human settlement, research station, and weather station
- Location: Northwest Territories, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Alert from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Alert” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Alert”
- Arabic: “أليرت”
- Aragonese: “Alert”
- Arpitan: “Alert”
- Asturian: “Alert”
- Azerbaijani: “Alert qəsəbəsi”
- Azerbaijani: “Alert”
- Basque: “Alert”
- Bavarian: “Alert”
- Belarusian: “Алерт”
- Belarusian: “Алэрт”
- Breton: “Alert”
- Bulgarian: “Алерт”
- Catalan: “Alert”
- Catalan: “Estació d’Alerta de les Forces Canadenques”
- Chinese: “阿勒特”
- Corsican: “Alert”
- Croatian: “Alert”
- Czech: “Alert”
- Danish: “Alert”
- Danish: “CFS Alert”
- Dutch: “Alert”
- Esperanto: “Alert”
- Esperanto: “Alerto”
- Estonian: “Alert”
- Finnish: “Alert”
- French: “Alert”
- French: “SFC Alert”
- Friulian: “Alert”
- Galician: “Alert, Nunavut”
- Galician: “Alert”
- German: “Alert”
- Greek: “Αλέρτ”
- Hebrew: “אלרט”
- Hindi: “अलर्ट”
- Hungarian: “Alert”
- Icelandic: “Alert”
- Ido: “Alert”
- Indonesian: “Alert, Nunavut”
- Indonesian: “Alert”
- Interlingua: “Alert”
- Interlingue: “Alert”
- Irish: “Alert”
- Italian: “Alert”
- Japanese: “アラート”
- Kongo: “Alert”
- Korean: “얼러트”
- Latvian: “Alerta”
- Ligurian: “Alert”
- Limburgan: “Alert”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Alert, Nunavut”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Alert”
- Lithuanian: “Alert”
- Lithuanian: “Alertas”
- Low German: “Alert”
- Luxembourgish: “Alert”
- Malagasy: “Alert”
- Malay: “Alert”
- Malayalam: “അലേർട്ട്”
- Minangkabau: “Alert”
- Narom: “Alert”
- Neapolitan: “Alert”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alert”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alert”
- Norwegian: “Alert”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Alert”
- Persian: “آلرت”
- Persian: “الرت”
- Picard: “Alert”
- Piemontese: “Alert”
- Polish: “Alert”
- Portuguese: “Alert”
- Romanian: “Alert, Nunavut”
- Romanian: “Alert”
- Romansh: “Alert”
- Russian: “Алерт”
- Sardinian: “Alert”
- Scots: “Alert”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Alert”
- Serbian: “Alert”
- Sicilian: “Alert”
- Slovak: “Alert”
- Slovenian: “Alert”
- Spanish: “Alert (Nunavut)”
- Spanish: “Alert”
- Swahili: “Alert”
- Swedish: “Alert”
- Swiss German: “Alert”
- Turkish: “Alert, Nunavut”
- Turkish: “Alert”
- Ukrainian: “Алерт”
- Urdu: “الرٹ، نوناوت”
- Venetian: “Alert”
- Vietnamese: “Alert”
- Vlaams: “Alert”
- Volapük: “Alert”
- Walloon: “Alert”
- Welsh: “Alert”
- Wolof: “Alert”
- Yue Chinese: “阿勒特”
- Zulu: “Alert”
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