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Orthographic projection centred over Alert, Nunavut. Alert is 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Cape Sheridan, the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, on the shore of the ice-covered Lincoln Sea. Alert lies just 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole; the nearest Canadian city is Iqaluit, the capital of the territory of Nunavut, 2,092 km (1,300 mi) distant.
Located on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, Alert is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world. [1] It takes its name from HMS Alert, which wintered 10 km (6.2 mi) east of the present station off what is now Cape Sheridan, Nunavut in 1875–1876. [6] U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson in front of CFS Alert welcome sign
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Jose Kusugak (2 May 1950 – 18 [1] or 19 [2] January 2011) was an Inuk politician from Repulse Bay, Northwest Territories (now Naujaat, Nunavut), Canada. He was an activist for Inuit rights, language and culture .
My daughter spent four years in Iqaluit taking the Nunavut Teacher Education Program. She came home to Cambridge Bay every summer during the break but spent her Christmas breaks in Iqaluit. Her, and her families official residence was Cambridge Bay, and she was not counted in the 2021 Canadian census as a resident of Iqaluit. That is how Alert ...
Disease-related deaths in Nunavut (2 C) This page was last edited on 27 September 2019, at 08:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Alert Airport (IATA: YLT, ICAO: CYLT) is located at Alert, Nunavut, Canada, approximately 830 km (520 mi) south of the true North Pole. It is operated by the Canadian Department of National Defence and is part of Canadian Forces Station Alert. A weather station was established on the site in 1950, and in 1957 construction began on the military ...
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