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🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Welcome to Svalbard.
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0:00.0 | First, there's Utkharvik. |
0:05.0 | Butkharvik is really far north. |
0:08.0 | It's the northernmost city in the U.S. |
0:10.0 | and sits at 71.2 lines of latitude north of the equator, well above the Arctic Circle. |
0:16.5 | Then there's Pond Inlet, a small Inuit town in northern Novet that sits as far north |
0:21.2 | from Toronto as Toronto does from Honduras. that's at |
0:25.0 | at 73.3 degrees north. Then there's New Swack Greenland, 74 |
0:36.2 | degrees north. There's Kularsoak Greenland 74.3 degrees north. There's Resolute |
0:42.0 | Canada 74.4 degrees north. There's Resolute Canada 74.4 degrees north. There's |
0:45.5 | Southsovic Greenland 76 degrees north. There's Greece fjord Canada 76.3 |
0:51.4 | degrees north. |
0:53.0 | There's Kanak, Greenland, 77.3 degrees north. |
0:57.0 | Then there's Sure Appaluke Greenland, 77.5 degrees north and the northernmost town in Greenland. |
1:03.0 | Then above those all, further north than every other settlement of any substantial size in the world, there's one more place. |
1:11.0 | In August 2019, I went to that place. So I'm currently in Oslo, Norway. It's about 7 a.m. and in about six hours I will be at the northernmost place in the world that you can really fly to. To come forward for boarding at Gate F12. |
1:45.0 | All other passengers are kindly requested to remain seated for the moment. |
1:50.0 | Please have your boarding card report on the agenda. |
1:54.0 | A summary, |
1:56.0 | in English a number in English in the |
2:00.0 | only series just in Baltimore. |
1:59.0 | O'Connor |
2:00.0 | the United States |
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