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The Arctic Cordillera mountain system covers much of Ellesmere Island, making it the most mountainous in the Arctic Archipelago. More than one-fifth of the island is protected as Quttinirpaaq National Park. In 2021, the population of Ellesmere Island was recorded at 144. [5] There are three settlements: Alert, Eureka, and Grise Fiord.
Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world. [5] [6] The location is on Ellesmere Island (in the Queen Elizabeth Islands) at latitude 82°30'05" north, 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole. [7]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Qikiqtaaluk Region had a population of 19,355 living in 5,530 of its 6,573 total private dwellings, a change of 1.9% from its 2016 population of 18,988. With a land area of 970,554.61 km 2 (374,733.23 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.0/km 2 (0.1/sq mi) in 2021. [21]
population (2016) Notes Refs 1: 5: Baffin Island: 507,451 195,928: Nunavut: 13,148: Population does not include Kinngait and Qikiqtarjuaq. Both lie on small islands just off the coast of Baffin Island. [1] [2] 2: 8: Victoria Island: 217,291 83,897: Northwest Territories, Nunavut: 2,162: Contains the world's largest island within an island ...
The two municipalities are the hamlets of Resolute (population 198 as of the 2016 census [10]), on Cornwallis Island, and Grise Fiord (population 129 as of the 2016 census [11]), on Ellesmere Island. Alert is a weather station staffed by Environment and Climate Change Canada, a Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) atmosphere monitoring laboratory on ...
Between 2011 and 2016, Nunavut had the highest population growth rate of any Canadian province or territory, at a rate of 12.7%. [61] The second-highest was Alberta, with a growth rate of 11.6%. Between 2016 and 2021, the population growth increased by 2.5% (the third lowest), a decrease of 10.2 percentiles from the previous census. [2]
^e Population calculated by removing the population of Lennox Island (pop. 323) [5] and Holman Island (pop. 5) [6] from the population of the province of Prince Edward Island (pop. 142,907) [7] ^f Population calculated by adding Census Tracts 4620550.04 (4,797), 4620550.02 (3,233) and 4620550.03 (6,683).
Located on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, Alert is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world. [1] It takes its name from HMS Alert, which wintered 10 km (6.2 mi) east of the present station off what is now Cape Sheridan, Nunavut in 1875–1876. [6] U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson in front of CFS Alert welcome sign