Alert

Environment Canada air chemistry observatory

Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut Canada, is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. Environment Canada (EC, legally incorporated as the Department of the Environment under the Department of the Environment Act ( R Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtani Region ( Inuktitut: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ or Baffin Region is an administrative region of Nunavut Nunavut (ˈnuːnəvʊt ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᓄᓇᕗᑦ is the largest and newest territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Some of the northernmost settlements in the world are See also Southernmost settlements Extreme points of the world ^[1]

Alert was reported to have five permanent inhabitants according to 2006 census. The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population ^[2] It also has many temporary inhabitants as it hosts a military signals intelligence radio receiving facility at Canadian Forces Station Alert (CFS Alert), as well as a co-located Environment Canada weather station, a Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) atmosphere monitoring laboratory, and the Alert Airport. Canadian Forces Station Alert, also CFS Alert, is a Canadian Forces signals intelligence intercept facility located in Alert, Nunavut on the Environment Canada (EC, legally incorporated as the Department of the Environment under the Department of the Environment Act ( R A weather station is a facility with instruments and equipment to make observations of atmospheric conditions in order to provide information to make weather forecasts The Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW is a worldwide system established by the World Meteorological Organization a United Nations agency to monitor trends in the Temperature and layers The temperature of the Earth's atmosphere varies with altitude the mathematical relationship between temperature and altitude varies among five Alert Airport is the world's northernmost permanent airport located at Alert, Nunavut, Canada, approximately south of the true North Pole

Geography

Alert is located 12 km (7. 5 mi) west of Cape Sheridan, the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, on the shore of ice-covered Lincoln Sea. Cape Sheridan (82°27'N 61°27W is on the northeastern coast of Ellesmere Island, Canada situated on the Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean Ellesmere Island is part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Lincoln Sea is a body of water in the Arctic Ocean, stretching from Cape Columbia, Canada in the west to Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland Lying just 840 km (520 mi) from the North Pole, the nearest Canadian city is Iqaluit, 2,092 km (1,300 mi) away. The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is subject to the caveats explained below defined as the point in the northern Iqaluit (iqaluit ᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ in Inuktitut syllabics; often pronounced ɨˈkæljuːɨt in English is the territorial

The settlement is surrounded by a rugged terrain of hills and valleys. The shore is composed primarily of slate and shale, and the sea is covered with pack ice year-round. Slate is a fine-grained foliated homogeneous, Metamorphic rock derived from an original Shale -type Sedimentary rock composed of Clay Shale (also called mudstone) is a fine-grained Sedimentary rock whose original constituents were Clay minerals or Muds It is characterized by Sea ice is formed from Ocean water that freezes Because the Oceans consist of Saltwater, this occurs at about -1 The local climate is actually semi-arid. A Semi-arid climate or steppe climate generally describes climatic regions that receive low annual Rainfall (250-500 mm or 10-20 in However, evaporation rates are also very low, as average monthly temperatures are above freezing only in July and August. There is 24-hour daylight from the last week of March until the middle of September and the sun is above the horizon from mid-April until August. The midnight sun is a phenomenon occurring in Latitudes north and nearby to the south of the Arctic Circle and south and nearby to the north of the From mid-October until the end of February the sun does not rise above the horizon and there is 24-hour darkness. The polar night is the night lasting more than 24 hours usually inside the Polar circles The opposite phenomenon when the sun stays above the horizon for a long time is called

Other places on Ellesmere Island are the research base at Eureka and the Inuit community of Grise Fiord. Eureka is a small research base on Ellesmere Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian territory of Inuit (plural the singular Inuk, means "man" or "person" is a general term for a group of culturally similar Indigenous peoples inhabiting Grise Fiord, ( Aujuittuq Place That Never Thaws is a small Inuit hamlet, Qikiqtaaluk Region

Orthographic projection centred over Alert Nunavut

Climate

Alert has a polar climate. Regions with a polar climate are characterized by a lack of warm summers (specifically no month having an average temperature of 10 °C or higher This means it is very cold and has snow cover for 11 months of the year. "Snowfall" redirects here For other uses see Snow (disambiguation or Snowfall (disambiguation. The warmest month, July, has an average temperature of just 3. 3 °C (37. 9 °F). The climate type also means that Alert is very dry, averaging only 153. 8 mm (6. 06 in) of precipitation per year. In Meteorology, precipitation (also known as one class of hydrometeors, which are atmospheric water phenomena is any product of the condensation of atmospheric Most of the precipitation is snow and occurs during the months of July, August and September. On average there is 16. 1 mm (0. 63 in) of rain which occurs between June and September. Alert sees very little snow during the rest of the year. ^[3]

History

Alert is named after HMS Alert, a British ship which wintered about 10 km (6. 2 mi) away in 1875-76. ^[4]

Sir George Nares was the first known person to reach the northern end of Ellesmere Island; he arrived on HMS Alert in 1875–1876. Admiral Sir George Strong Nares, KCB ( 24 April 1831 &ndash 15 January 1915) was a British naval officer and The weather station was established in 1950, and the military station in 1958. Etymology The word bases is first recorded in English language from c

Nine crew members of an Royal Canadian Air Force Lancaster died in a crash while making an airdrop of supplies to the station in 1950. "Lanc" redirects here Distinguish from Lank (adjective and from Amon Lanc (a place in Tolkien's fiction An airdrop is a type of Airlift, developed during World War II to resupply otherwise inaccessible troops, who themselves may have been Airborne

A C-130 Hercules, part of Operation Boxtop 22, crashed about 30 km (19 mi) short of the runway on October 30, 1991. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout A runway ( RWY) is a strip of land on an Airport, on which Aircraft can take off and land. Events 637 - Antioch surrenders to the Muslim forces under Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of Iron bridge. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Of the 18 aboard, 4 died in the crash, while the pilot died during the 30 hours that it took search and rescue teams to reach the crash site under blizzard conditions. For the TV series of this title see Search and Rescue (TV series. A blizzard is a severe Winter storm condition characterized by low Temperatures strong Winds and heavy blowing Snow Blizzards are formed when Several books, including "Death and Deliverance: The True Story of an Airplane Crash at the North Pole" by Robert Mason Lee, were written, and a film, Ordeal In The Arctic, starring Richard Chamberlain, was based on the event. Ordeal In The Arctic is a Made-for-television movie written by Paul Edwards and directed by Mark Sobel.

Current events

As of April 13, 2006 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was reporting that the heating costs for the station had risen. Events 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. As a result of the rising costs the Canadian Forces proposed cutbacks to support jobs by using private contractors. ^[5]

In early April 2006 the Roly McLenahan Torch used to light the flame in Whitehorse, Yukon for the 2007 Canada Games passed through Alert. The 2007 Canada Winter Games were held in Whitehorse Yukon from Friday 23 February 2007 to Saturday 10 Whitehorse (ˈʍaɪthɔrs ( 2006 population 20461 CA population 22898 (formerly White Horse until 1957 - 03-21) is the Yukon (ˈjuːkɒn is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three territories. The Canada Games is a high-level Multi-sport event with a National Artists Program held every two years in Canada, alternating between the Canada Winter Games and

In August 2006, the Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, made a visit to Alert as part of his campaign to promote Canadian sovereignty in the north. WikipediaManual of Style (biographies#Honorific prefixes --> Stephen Joseph Harper PC Under international law no country currently owns the North Pole or the region of the Arctic Ocean surrounding it

See also

• Svalbard
• Baffin, Unorganized

References

Further reading

External links

• Canada National Defence page on CFS Alert
• Climate information
• The Canadian Encyclopedia: Alert, Nunavut
• Map of Nunavut showing location of Alert
• Current weather conditions (Weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca)

Coordinates: 82°28′N 62°30′W / 82.467, -62.5