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On 01.04.10, In Lives, By Silandi
…Or your leg.
This guy was hungry and did not want to share
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Photos from Gambell, Alaska. A Yupik Village on St. Lawrence Island out in the Bering Sea. The tip of the Island is located about 40 miles or so from Siberia.
Birds and animals are in their sets.
Have a look from Alaska to Siberia:
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This is the preview of Ice Road Truckers TV Show Season 3 by History Channel.
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In Prudhoe Bay, a network of ice roads in the tundra crisscross river systems & open ocean to connect Americas booming North Slope oil fields to dry land. Every winter truckers have less than three months to shuttle critical supplies over the ice. There’s only one way to get to this remote location: 400 miles of ice-covered, mountainous terrain known as The Dalton Highway.
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On 11.27.09, In Lives, By SusaninCanada
The governments of Canada, Greenland and Nunavut have signed an agreement to protect polar bears in overlapping governmental regions. This is similar to the bilateral deal signed last year between Canada and the U.S. and a separate agreement between Alaska and Russia.
These agreements all set a framework for collaboration on scientific research and monitoring of polar bear population levels.
Renato, I’ve read the following news from The Associated Press on Nov. 22, 2009. Is it true? Confused with all these F/C degrees. Can you give clearification?
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) – It’s been bitter cold in Bettles, a small village 200 miles north of Fairbanks.
The village in the foothills of the Brooks Range recorded a new record low temperature of 47 degrees below zero on Saturday. It was the fifth day in a row a new record low was set in the town, and the sixth day in a row that the temperature was more than 40 below zero. (more…)
This video was shot during Fairbanks’ 2009 annual Festival of Native Arts, where artists from all around Alaska and the Outside come to celebrate their native heritage by showcasing arts and crafts, dances, native games, and other cultural activities.
These are Nunamiut dancers from Anaktuvuk Pass, one of the coldest towns in Alaska. The Nunamiut are inland Eskimos, who hunt caribou rather than whales. Anaktuvuk Pass is only accessible by airplane, or by going through the bush in the winter, using snow machines or SnoCats.
They performed a couple of dances, most of them from 30 seconds to 1 minute long. Sometimes I wished they went on for longer as they were quite entertaining, you could tell the dances told a story and I wish I understood their language. On all dances the males stomped one foot on the ground to the beat of the drums, while the women did not stomp. Their drums were large but light, made of some animal skin (possibly caribou) stretched over a round wooden frame. They were the only instruments used by the performers.
Looking by the number of people on stage it looks like most of the village came down to perform; the total population is only 249!
Six Dog Night. That is an Alaskan expression for those deep, frigid days that the Alaskan Interior is famous for. Temperatures bordering -60 degrees Fahrenheit (-51 Celsius) are not unheard of in January and February.
But where did this expression come from? Why six dog night?
