Alert
Alert is a military outpost and weather station in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is the northernmost continuously-inhabited place in the world.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Meteorological station
- Description: settlement in Nunavut, Canada, the northernmost permanently inhabited place on Earth
- Also known as: “Alert (Nunavut)”, “Alert, Canada”, “Alert, NU”, “Alert, Nunavut”, “Estació d’Alerta de les Forces Canadenques”, and “الرت”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Alert Airport and Canadian Forces Station Alert.
Canadian Forces Station Alert
Military installation
Alert
- Categories: human settlement, research station, and weather station
- Location: Northwest Territories, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
82.4987° or 82° 29′ 55″ north
Longitude
-62.34541° or 62° 20′ 44″ west
Population
62
Elevation
63 metres (207 feet)
ICAO airport code
CWLT
Open location code
C7JVFMX3+FR
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Satellite Map
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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”
- 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”
- 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”
- Jèrriais: “Alert”
- Kongo: “Alert”
- Korean: “얼러트”
- Latvian: “Alerta”
- Ligurian: “Alert”
- Limburgan: “Alert”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Alert, Nunavut”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Alert”
- Lithuanian: “Alertas”
- Low German: “Alert”
- Luxembourgish: “Alert”
- Malagasy: “Alert”
- Malay: “Alert”
- Malayalam: “അലേർട്ട്”
- Minangkabau: “Alert”
- Neapolitan: “Alert”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alert”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alert”
- Norwegian: “Alert”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Alert”
- Persian: “آلرت”
- 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”
- 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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Places to explore: Alert Creek and Ravine Creek.
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