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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.

Sounds plausible; I was just looking up a few of the eastern Siberian towns - Ust-Nera (143E, 64N or so) at 6,500 inhabitants, Bilibino (167E, 68N) - also home to the world's northernmost nuclear power plant, 6,000 inhabitants...)

Closer to (my) home - Vardø (2,000) and Hammerfest (8,000) at the extreme north of Norway. Positively crowded!

Apparently it's 401 now[1].

[1] https://all-populations.com/en/au/population-of-leonora.html

There’s Ittoqqortoormiit [1] on there too at a population of 452.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ittoqqortoormiit

Tristan da Cunha - population: 246

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha

Mejit in the Marshall Islands has a population of 348.