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  Alert, Nunavut - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Alert had 5 permanent inhabitants in the 2001 census.
Alert 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 GAW atmosphere monitoring laboratory, and the Alert Airport.
Alert is one of a handful of settlements in Canada's north that was not renamed in the 1980s and 1990s when many towns in the Northwest Territories (of which Nunavut was a part until 1999) were given Inuktitut names.
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Currently, CF personnel are involved in the NATO mission in Afghanistan.
Since 1925, Canada has claimed the portion of the Arctic between 60° and 141° W longitude ([4]); this claim is not universally recognized.
The northernmost settlement in Canada (and in the world) is Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island – latitude 82.5° N – just 834 kilometres (450 nautical miles) from the North Pole.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/canada.html   (6514 words)

  
 Top20Canada.com - Your Top20 Guide to Canada!
The northernmost settlement in Canada (and in the world) is Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island – latitude 82.5° N – just 834 kilometres from the North Pole.
[5] The unified Canadian Forces (CF) are comprised of: the Canadian Forces Land Force Command (Army), the Canadian Forces Maritime Command (Navy), and the Canadian Forces Air Command (Air Force).
The two-hundred member relief crew helped in Southeast Asia after the December 2004 tsunami, and DART was also deployed in response to the devastating earthquake that struck the Kashmir region in South Asia in October 2005.
www.top20canada.com   (4511 words)

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