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Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world,〔 ("Twice a year, the military resupply Alert, the world's northernmost settlement.")〕 at latitude 82°30'05" north, from the North Pole. Its permanent population was reported as zero in the 2011 census,〔() See rectified count of private dwellings occupied by usual residents in Baffin Unorganized, NO〕 but military and scientific personnel on rotation were present. It takes its name from HMS ''Alert'', which wintered east of the present station, off what is now Cape Sheridan, in 1875–1876. Alert 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 Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) atmosphere monitoring laboratory, and the Alert Airport. ==History== Alert is named after HMS ''Alert'', a British ship which wintered about away in 1875–76.〔(A History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services )〕 The ship's captain, George Nares, and his crew were the first people to reach the northern end of Ellesmere Island. Shortly after the end of World War II, Charles J. Hubbard began to rouse interest in the United States and Canada for the establishment of a network of Arctic stations. His plan, in broad perspective, envisaged the establishment of two main stations, one in Greenland and the other within the Archipelago, which could be reached by sea supply. These main stations would then serve as advance bases from which a number of smaller stations would be established by air. The immediate plans contemplated the establishment of weather stations only, but it was felt that a system of weather stations would also provide a nucleus of transportation, communications and settlements which would greatly aid programs of research in many other fields of science. It was recognized that ultimate action would depend on international co-operation since the land masses involved were under Canadian and Danish control. The weather station was established in 1950, and the military station in 1958. Nine crew members of a Royal Canadian Air Force Lancaster died in a crash while making an airdrop of supplies to the station in 1950. Charles Hubbard, USWB Chief of Polar Operations Project, was among the passengers on board the ill-fated Lancaster crash and was among those buried at Alert. "Boxtop 22", a C-130 Hercules flying as part of Operation Boxtop, crashed about short of the runway on 30 October 1991. Of the 18 aboard, four died in the crash, while the pilot died during the 32 hours that it took search and rescue teams to reach the crash site under blizzard conditions. The crash was the subject of several books, including ''Death and Deliverance: The True Story of an Airplane Crash at the North Pole'' by Robert Mason Lee, as well as a film, ''Ordeal in the Arctic'', starring Richard Chamberlain. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alert, Nunavut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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