CFS Alert
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Canadian Forces Station Alert, often shortened to CFS Alert, is a signals intelligence intercept facility of the Canadian Armed Forces at Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
The station from the south, May 2016
U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson in front of CFS Alert welcome sign
HMS Alert (1856)
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HMS Alert was a 17-gun wooden screw sloop of the Cruizer class of the Royal Navy, launched in 1856 and broken up in 1894. She was the eleventh ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name, and was noted fo
CFS Alert
…northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, Alert is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world. It takes its name from the Royal Navy vessel HMS Alert, which wintered 10 km (6.2 mi) east of the present station off what is now Cape Sheridan, Nunavut in 1875–1876. Alert, then in Canada's Northwest…
Alert in pack ice during the Arctic Expedition of 1876
HMS Alert pushed aground by ice, Radmore Harbour, 1875–1876 (Illustrated London News, 1876)
Alert as a lighthouse supply ship in 1893
Alert's figurehead and wheel exhibited at Musée de la civilisation, Quebec City