Alert (Nunavut)

Alert
Nickname : The Frozen Chosen
NOAA Observatory, Alert
Motto : Inuit Nunangata Ungata
Location in Nunavut
Alert
State :	Canada
Territory :	Nunavut
Region:	Qikiqtaaluk
Coordinates :	82 ° 30 ′  N , 62 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 82 ° 30 ′  N , 62 ° 20 ′  W
Residents :	62 (as of 2016)

The military base Alert , located at 82 ° 28 'N. Br., Is the northernmost permanently occupied human settlement on earth. Surrounded by hills, the base is in the Canadian territory of Nunavut on Ellesmere Island on Dumbell Bay in the Lincoln Sea ( Arctic Ocean ). The coast there is characterized by slate deposits . The place is named after the expedition ship HMS Alert of George Nares , who was the first to reach the northernmost point of Ellesmere Island, Cape Columbia .

General

The settlement was inhabited by 62 people, including 20 children under the age of 14, according to the 2016 census, a significant increase compared to 2011 when only five people were reported. According to Radio Canada (CBC) from September 2018, "almost 200" people live in the military facility. It consists of a military camp of the Canadian Army , a weather station operated jointly by the Canadian and US military , a listening facility and an observation station for the earth's atmosphere maintained by the GAW . As a restricted military area, Alert and its surroundings are not included in the Quttinirpaaq National Park (formerly Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve). Entering the area is strictly forbidden without written permission.

The weather station has existed since 1950; The military camp followed in 1958. Alert owns an airfield .

history

Shortly after the Second World War, the US Colonel Charles J. Hubbard began promoting a network of research stations in the Arctic in the United States and Canada, including two central settlements, one in Greenland and one in northern Canada. These two places should be supplied by ship and supplemented by smaller weather stations that should only be accessible by plane. Alert was built as a weather observation station in 1950, and in 1958 it was expanded to become a military site. Nine crew members of a Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft died in 1950 when supplies were dropped , including Charles Hubbard, who was then head of the Polar Operations Project. All victims were buried on the spot. Another accident occurred on October 30, 1991 when a C-130 Hercules crashed in a snow storm 30 kilometers from the runway. Four of the total of 18 passengers died immediately, the pilot died during the rescue operation, which took 32 hours due to the difficult weather conditions. The event was the subject of the book Death and Deliverance: The True Story of an Airplane Crash at the North Pole by Robert Mason Lee and the television film Ordeal in the Arctic starring Richard Chamberlain , which first aired on February 15, 1993 on ABC has been.

In April 2006, the Canadian radio reported a sharp rise in heating costs in Alert. On the way to the Olympic Games in Vancouver , the torch relay led to Alert on November 9, 2009. Both Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper were on alert in August 2006 to underline his country's claims to sovereignty in the Arctic, and Governor General David Johnston , who was at the station on January 19-20, 2015, with civil and military personnel Employees met.

Leading officers of the American Air Force met in September 2017 for the team building maneuver "Uggianaqtuq" in Alert to practice behavior under extreme conditions and to underline their solidarity with Canada. In August 2018, the Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan visited the station, emphasized Canada's sovereignty claims in the Arctic and referred to ongoing infrastructure measures worth C $ ten million. The fire station, the tank and power station systems are to be comprehensively modernized on site. The only places of interest in Alert are place-name signs of all cities from which the (temporary) residents come, some with distance information. Fending off wandering polar bears is one of the daily activities in Alert.

climate

Alert
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     7th   -28 -36     5   -30 -37     7th   -29 -37     8th   -21 -29     10   -9 -15     12   1 -3     20th   6th 1     28   3 -2     28   -7 -13     14th   -16 -23     8th   -23 -30     8th   -26 -34 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: wetterkontor.de

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Alert Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) −28.2 −29.7 −29.3 −20.8 −8.5 1.4 6.4 3.4 −7.1 −16.0 −22.9 −26.1 O −14.7 Min. Temperature (° C) −35.9 −37.4 −37.0 −28.9 −14.7 −3.4 0.7 −1.6 −13.2 −23.3 −30.3 −33.8 O −21.5 Precipitation ( mm ) 7th 5 7th 8th 10 12 20th 28 28 14th 8th 8th Σ 155 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 0.0 0.0 2.3 12.2 13.4 10.3 9.5 7.7 3.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 O 4.9 Water temperature (° C) −5 −5 −5 −5 −5 −4 −3 −2 −3 −4 −4 −5 O −4.2 Humidity ( % ) 71 68 62 60 72 78 79 85 86 75 71 67 O 72.9 Source: wetterkontor.de

Alert in the northeast of the map

Alert's current heat record was set on July 14, 2019 at 21 degrees Celsius.

Web links

Commons : Alert (Nunavut)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Description of the NOAA Alert station with location information

Individual evidence

1. ^ Census Profile. 2016 Census. In: Statistics Canada. Accessed January 8, 2018 .  
2. ^ Census Profile. In: Statistics Canada. 2011, accessed January 8, 2018 .  
3. ↑ CBC, September 3, 2018 Life north of 80: Meet the people living at the top of the world [1]
4. ^ Canadian Forces Station Alert. Governor General and Commander-in-Chief Visits Canadian Forces Station Alert. The Governor General of Canada, January 19, 2015, accessed January 8, 2018 .  
5. ↑ Dan DeCook: Arctic expedition security emphasizes building awareness, partnerships. In: Dayton Daily News. September 22, 2017, accessed January 8, 2018 .  
6. ↑ CBC, August 20, 2018 Northern defense upgrades part of plan to protect Canada's Arctic, Sajjan says [2]
7. ^ Avery Park: Beyond the Inuit line. In: Orangeville Citizen. October 6, 2017, accessed January 8, 2018 .  
8. ↑ CBC, September 3, 2018 Life north of 80: Meet the people living at the top of the world [3]
9. ↑ Temperature record in the northernmost permanently inhabited settlement. In: nzz.ch . July 17, 2019, accessed July 21, 2019 .