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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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