The
question is: What is a "town". Alert, Nord, Kaffeklubben etc. are settlements,
but do not really sound like "towns" in the European sense of the word. A town,
as I understand, has to have certain rights as an administrative center,
should also be inhabited by permanent settlers, better even: by people born
there. This all applies to Longyearbyen.
Pyramiden and Ny Alesund on Svalbard have been settlements in the past,
even more northerly, but are not inhabited anymore, after coal mining has become
too unprofitable.
Wolfgang
I would vote for Alert
as the most northerly settlement. A military base is the
functional
equivalent of a company town--not different from mining towns, lumber
towns, etc. If someone dislikes military settlements, the next most
northerly
settlement would be the one in Greenland with the appropriate
name Nord.
The northernmost point of land in the world is a small
island along the northern
coast of Greenland called Kaffeklubben
Ø.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Hammerfest or?
> Hello!
> I
post this query here, hoping not to bore anybody.
> In a trivial pursuit
query there is written that "the town Hammerfest in
> Norway is the
upper most northern town in the world".
> Well, I know that there is the
military Canadian base ALERT (with its post
> office available also to
civilian people) which is surely northern than
> Hammersfest, but surely
there are some villages in Svalbard islands or in
> Asian Russian
territory, or in Alaska.
> Probably, before answering, we must
define the word "town", the word
> "village", also we must decide if the
people must live there all the year or
> if we accept a place where
people live there only in Summer season (
> temporary base).... or if
can decide on
> the fact that there it must be a governmental post
office with a specific
> ZIP international code,.. or if we are
speaking of a "continental town" or a
> town on an island... or
something else...
> Well, the question is:
> which is the
uppermost northern TOWN in the world?
> Any help?
> Best regards
Fabio
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