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Category: Series: Extremities of the Earth

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Extremities of the Earth: The Northernmost Inhabited Point (Part 2)

Posted by: Julie Stoner

In the previous post of this series, the military installation of Alert in Nunavut, Canada was named the northernmost permanently inhabited point. While this is indeed true, it is only accessible to assigned military personnel. For the adventurers out there, we will have to content ourselves with visiting or living on the island of Spitsbergen, …