Canadian Forces Station Alert
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Located on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, CFS Alert is the most northerly, permanently inhabited location in the world, located 817 kilometres (km) from the geographic North Pole. On April 1, 2009, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) took command of CFS Alert. It is a unit of 8 Wing, headquartered in Trenton, Ontario (ON). The Station was first settled in the early 1950s as a weather station of the Joint Arctic Weather Station (JAWS) system. On September 1, 1958, Alert began its operational role as a signals intelligence unit. At that time, it became the Alert Wireless Station and was under the command of the Canadian Army. Today, Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel, Department of National Defence (DND) employees, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) employees, and contracted employees comprise the entire population of CFS Alert. CFS Alert maintains signals intelligence facilities to support Canadian military operations.
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Alert, Nunavut
Canada
https://www.canada.ca/en/air-force/corporate/alert.html
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