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You are correct: Alert and Eureka are both further north. However, I believe that they are both research or defense installations. While I believe that they are
by daveslash 7y ago
You are correct: Alert and Eureka are both further north. However, I believe that they are both research or defense installations. While I believe that they are both occupied year round, I don't believe that they qualify as "community" because people are assigned there; nobody is "from" there.
- singingboyo 7y agoYes - per wiki, Alert has Canadian a military SIGINT monitoring station and a couple of weather stations. Eureka seems to just be a research station.
- bryanlarsen 7y agoMost residents aren't really "from" Grise Fiord either. Quoting from Wikipedia: The settlement (and Resolute) was created by the Canadian government in 1953, partly to assert sovereignty in the High Arctic during the Cold War. Eight Inuit families from Inukjuak, Quebec (on the Ungava Peninsula) were relocated after being promised homes and game to hunt, but the relocated people discovered no buildings and very little familiar wildlife.
- daveslash 7y ago>> " partly to assert sovereignty in the High Arctic during the Cold War." Just Wow: "We're afraid that another power might assert claim/dominance over this giant region, so we we'll get a few dozen people, who have no real skin in the game, to form a small hunting/fishing villiage. That'll stop another power from claiming this WHOLE area." ~Humans are weird....