<br />I was there twice, for six-month stints. Nobody really "lives" there, as in, there are no families or stores or what-have-you there. It's just a big work-location, with dorms and a cafeteria-style kitchen, with fresh food flown in once a week or so, and two major re-supplies of non-perishables and fuel flown in each year. Since my first tour was mid-November to mid-May, and my second was end-December to end-June, I never really did see a "summer"... It got above freezing now and then, but it was very interesting how quickly you aclimatized - for example, it was consistently <br />-35C for weeks, and then we had a freak warm spell that lasted all of maybe an hour one time... the temperature warmed up to -14C, and when I went from the main building to the one I was bunking in, I had to take off my parka because I was sweltering...... <br /><br />Television also takes satellite, or an awful lot of communications bandwidth, so the first time, no, no "real" television. We were sent video tapes of some TV shows (including the news and some sports), which tended to arrive about 3 weeks in arrears... and we had a 3-channel closed-circuit cable TV system where we showed 24-hour movies, when we weren't showing stale news....... The next time I was up there, digital video was being experimented with, so a single channel "CBC North" was transmitted up. This wasn't the choice of most people up there, but it was the only channel that got as far as the satellite terminal closest to us, I believe, which meant that it was "the" choice..... I'm not sure what's there now, as I last left in 1995, and I know that a lot of the technology is being remoted out so that you don't have to send people up there to run it. I think the station population is down to under 100 now.<br /><br />And not a single book of Latin!<br /><br />Kilmenyquote author=mariek link=board=6;threadid=256;start=45#2352 date=1059593619]<br />I just happen to have a world atlas here, wow, Alert is way up there! Now I know where it is, and what a great trivia question that would make.Must have been pretty cold up there, even in summer I would guess. How long did you live there? And did you even have the luxury of television? <br />
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