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
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
Alert, Nunavut
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Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world. The location is on Ellesmere Island at latitude 82°30'05" north, 817 km from the Nor
HMS Alert (1856)
…Nares Lake, Markham Ice Shelf, Ayles Ice Shelf, Doidge Bay and Mount Ayles. The northernmost permanently inhabited place on earth, the settlement of Alert at the northern point of Ellesmere Island, was named for the ship…
The main CFS Alert complex from the south, May 2016
A sign at CFS Alert commemorating Alert as the northernmost permanently inhabited settlement in the world. The area has been inhabited since 1950.
The opening of the Alert Background Air Pollution Monitoring Network in 1986.
The remains of the Royal Canadian Air Force Lancaster 965, which crashed in July 1950. Difficult Arctic conditions make landings in Alert hazardous.