If the size and complexity of Santa's Villages around the Arctic Circle determine the authenticity and nationality of the real man in red ... then it's official. Santa (or Joulupukki, meaning "Yule Goat") must be Finnish.Rovaniemi, the centre of Santa’s universe At the point where the Arctic Circle (or Napapiiri) crosses highway E75 just north of Rovaneimi there is the most elaborate tourist installation that we have seen anywhere, including North Pole, Alaska! Seven days a week, 365 days a year ...
Things that usually clutter facebook newsfeeds: cat videos, instagram pics and party invitations. And increasingly, at least in Nunavut’s capital city, caribou carcasses. In a startling shift away from the long-rooted Inuit custom of sharing food among families, a growing number of opportunistic northerners are instead using facebook to sell their traditional food.
Iqaluit Sell/Swap, an open group on the popular social networking site, serves primarily as a convenient place to auction ...
Posted by Samia Madwar on Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The CCGS Amundsen is docked in Montréal this week for the International Polar Year 2012: From knowledge to action conference. Soon, it will move to a more permanent location for repairs. Currently, for instance, the icebreaker has only four engines. To drive through thick ice, it needs six. The repairs mean the icebreaker will be out of commission this summer. In the meantime, the ship that has carried hundreds of researchers to the Canadian Arctic to study everything from ocean currents to ...
Today, people across Canada and around the world will do something out of love for our planet and protection for its future during the 42nd annual Earth Day. It could be something small like spreading awareness about Earth Day or taking action in different ways such as not leaving the water running while brushing their teeth or organizing a garbage clean-up. As commemoration of the 1970s birth of the environmental movement, Earth Day brings together more than one billion people to demand ...
The Arctic Circle runs through Daniel Ohlsson’s kitchen. Credit: James Raffan
The plan was to walk as much of the Arctic Circle as possible from Norway through to Sweden. Turns out, although there are tons of inviting trails, that is much easier to do in theory than it is in practice. Credit: James Raffan So we do day hikes from parking lots here and there as we make our way up Norwegian Highway E6 to 77 and then criss-cross the Arctic Circle through the mountains on mostly all weather roads to the town of Jokkmokk, Sweden.
