Seriously, I’d love to visit the high Arctic. Utqiaġvik (formerly called Barrow) is the northernmost point of the United States, dangling on a small peninsula on the northern edge of Alaska. The sunset the other day was the last they’ll see for a few months, so it’s cold, remote, and dark, the kind of place I wouldn’t mind living in. The population size is about the same as the place I live in now.
I’m never going to get to visit it, though, so I’ll have to settle for the Utqiaġvik Sea Ice Webcam. You too can visit that website and observe the slow progression of darkness and ice in the Arctic. Well, maybe — right now it’s continuously dark.
You can also check out the sea ice radar and see what the ice is doing. It’s a little more lively than the town.
But is it adequately supplied with spiders?
That may be one shortcoming. I predict, though, that there are some house spiders inside people’s homes — they’re tough.
My brother-in-law was stationed in Barrow, AK when he was in the army in the ‘60s. After suffering a case of frostbite, he put in for a transfer to somewhere warm. They sent him to Vietnam.
The photos reminds me of the view of Iqaluit, Baffin Island, Canada from the 747 window. My fight from SF to London landed there due to some unexplained emergency. The flight attendant called it “Frobisher Bay” which was Iqaluit’s name at the time. There was an ambulance on the tarmac after we landed. We spent 4 hours on the ground as they refueled the plane, so lots of opportunity to look through the porthole at the lights of the airport and little town. They refueled the plane using a 10- or 12-foot ladder in the back of a pickup truck. We took off with a shuddering roar as I suspect the runway was a wee small for the plane.
You might find this youtube channel by “Cecilia Blomdahl” who lives outside a small town on Svalbard island way north of Norway.
it is mostly about what it is like to live ther.e. Not as bad as you might imagine.
Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpqt5_ZS0i8
marvz@5,
But watch out for the armoured bears!
Isn’t that where they filmed “30 Days of Night?”