What is the northern most human settlement?

gtho4

Alert, Nunavut Alert is the most northerly inhabited settlement in the world. With coordinates 82°28' N, 62°30' W, it is only 817 kilometres away from the North Pole. Alert is located on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island (on Cape Columbia) in the Canadian Arctic. The area is approximately 100 meters above sea level. Alert, originally inhabited by the Inuit, was born as a joint Canadian, US weather station in 1950. CFS Alert is a very abandoned and barren area with less than 200 personnel. The terrain in the immediate area is steeply rolling. The land here is frozen for almost ten months of the vegetation (polar desert). http://www.grc.k12.nf.ca/climatecanada/alert.htm Feb 04 10, 9:04 PM

star_gazer

Alert is a very dangerous place to get to: 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. A C-130 Hercules, part of Operation Boxtop 22, crashed about 30 km (19 mi) short of the runway on October 30, 1991. Of the 18 aboard, 4 died in the crash, while the pilot died during the 30 hours that it took search and rescue teams to reach the crash site under blizzard conditions. Several books, including "Death and Deliverance: The True Story of an Airplane Crash at the North Pole" by Robert Mason Lee, were written, and a film, Ordeal In The Arctic, starring Richard Chamberlain, was based on the event. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert,_Nunavut Feb 05 10, 5:50 AM