Apr 1, 2009 · CFS Alert maintains signals intelligence facilities, geolocation capability and High Frequency and Direction Finding facilities to support Search and rescue and operations. It provides support to environment and climate change researchers.

Canadian Forces Station Alert (French: Station des Forces canadiennes Alert[5]), often shortened to CFS Alert (SFC Alert), is a signals intelligence intercept facility of the Canadian Armed Forces at Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.

Sep 3, 2018 · The people living at CFS Alert, Canada's northernmost military outpost, are there for one main reason — to work. The weather and intelligence station is home to fewer than 200 people. All of them...

Alert is 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Cape Sheridan, the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, on the shore of the ice-covered Lincoln Sea. Alert lies just 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole; the nearest Canadian city is Iqaluit, the capital of the territory of Nunavut, 2,092 km (1,300 mi) distant.

Operation BOXTOP is a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) mission to bring supplies to Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert. CFS Alert is remote, located on the northeast tip of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, just 817 km from the North Pole.

Feb 3, 2017 · Alert’s proximity to the Soviet Union allowed the US-Canada-UK-Australia-New Zealand intelligence sharing alliance, also known as the Five Eyes, to eavesdrop on the Russian communication network. The station soon became a key asset in the global ECHELON network.

CFS Alert, Nunavut is the most northern permanently inhabited settlement in the world. It is situated on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, approximately 817 km from the geographic North Pole at coordinates 82°28' N, 62°30' W.

Feb 1, 2019 · At any given moment, roughly 75 personnel of the Canadian Forces and some civilian contractors live at Canadian Forces Station Alert. Located on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island, in Canada’s...

Alert is Canada's most important intercept station for monitoring the former Soviet Union. During the Cold War, it was responsible for collecting the intercepts that probably constituted the most important Canadian contribution to the UKUSA community.

Canadian Forces Station Alert, also CFS Alert, is a Canadian Forces signals intelligence intercept facility located in Alert, Nunavut on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island. Located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, it is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the...