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Alert in northern Canada has 62 permanent inhabitants, according to wikipedia [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert,_Nunavut



I had a friend who worked up in Alert while he was in the air force. It may be one of the most remote places on the map, it's essentially an out grown air force base/research station, there would be nothing there if not for the cold war.




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