Kotzebue.
No trees or any kind of wind-breaking foliage to speak of... so the wind really howls through here.
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Kotzebue.
No trees or any kind of wind-breaking foliage to speak of... so the wind really howls through here.
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We flew past Red Dog Mine's port on the way.
I installed a Cat 6 network with a 10-gig fiber backbone here years ago, along with cable TV to all the residential rooms. Red Dog Mine was the largest Zinc mine in the world up until a few years ago, and the amount of minerals they pull out of the ground is staggering. They store all the zinc & lead in those huge warehouses all year long, and the port here is ice-free about 2 months out of the year - so they get everything shipped in that small window, along with resupplying a million gallons of diesel. Most of the minerals go straight from this port to China... highest bidder gets the goods!
While they were constructing this port back in 1989 or so, one night the Soviets landed a recon mission on the beach from a submarine and investigated what was being constructed - they suspected the US Navy or Coast Guard were building a base when the huge diesel tanks went in. The construction guys got up one morning and found Russian cigarette butts & empty packs & candy wrappers on the beach where they landed in their inflatable raft. Kinda cool.
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I cannot imagine those miners working in a place like that for any length of time. It is about as remote as I can imagine a non-Amazon jungle job to be.
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Kivalina.
There is still a huge debate about this little village of about 400 people.
You can see where they built the village, and naturally, there is a real problem with the ocean battering away at the shore and they want the Feds to pay for relocating the town because of " OMG climate change!".
The whole idea is preposterous. Don't build your villages on a strip of sand on the coast and you won't have problems like this. But it's $400 million in free money, right?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.4a05a7654d45
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Random scenery.
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Look at that tiny house there next to that creek.
You have to wonder who would live there, other than a guy running from the law after being profiled on America's Most Wanted. Many miles from anywhere, and nothing to do other than hang out on the beach, no trees, no road, no electricity, nothing.
Lots of wind, though!
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This guy has a 4-wheeler trail going somewhere, though. Maybe a gold miner?
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Finally, some sign of civilization. This is the end of the furthest road from Pt. Hope... I'm thinking it's an FAA navigation point or something.
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