Alert, Nunavut
Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. It hosts a military signals intelligence radio receiving facility, a co-located Environment Canada weather station, a Global Atmosphere Watch atmosphere monitoring observatory, and the Alert Airport. Alert is named after HMSAlert, a British ship that wintered about 10 km away in 1875–1876.
