Alert Airport
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Alert, Nunavut, Canada
- Also known as: “CYLT” and “YLT”
Places of Interest
Highlights include 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.
Alert Airport
- Categories: airport, military installation, and transportation
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
82.51709° or 82° 31′ 2″ northLongitude
-62.28579° or 62° 17′ 9″ westElevation
30 metres (98 feet)Operator
Canadian Department of National DefenceIATA airport code
YLTICAO airport code
CYLTOpen location code
C7JVGP87+RMOpenStreetMap ID
way 109039073OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodromeOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryOpenStreetMap feature
military=airfieldGeoNames ID
6301462Wikidata ID
Q127121
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Alert Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Alert Airport”
- Chinese: “阿勒特機場”
- Finnish: “Alertin lentoasema”
- French: “aéroport d’Alert”
- French: “Aéroport d’Alert”
- French: “Aéroport d’Alerte”
- German: “CYLT”
- German: “Flugplatz Alert”
- German: “YLT”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Alert”
- Indonesian: “CYLT”
- Indonesian: “YLT”
- Italian: “aeroporto di Alert”
- Japanese: “アラート空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Alert”
- Persian: “CYLT”
- Persian: “YLT”
- Persian: “فرودگاه آلرت”
- Portuguese: “Aeroporto de Alert”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Alert”
- Russian: “Аэропорт Алерта”
- Swedish: “Alert flygplats”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи олрт”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Alert”
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Highlights include Cape Belknap and Alert.
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