Svalbard!

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It has polar bears, arctic foxes and some people. It belongs to Norway, apparently. And up till a few days when we were looking at a map I had no idea it even existed! Am I stupid? Are there other mystery countries lurking around?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 11:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I had no idea that it existed until I read it in Philip Pullman's first Dark Materials book, and then mentioned to a friend that it would be a brilliant idea. They looked at me as if I was a fool, which is fair enough, as I am.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 11:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I've been sucked in by the MERCATOR PROJECTION which turns the globe into a flat map... on that it was really pretty big, same size as Iceland or so I think, on my inflatable globe it's miniscule. Damn you Mercator!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, it's not that minuscule -- about twice the size of Belgium, in fact.

― OleM, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I had no idea...

― emma (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

It's real? Cool, shall we go?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

twenty years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyNSwrzK6E

This came on randomly when I was out running, talk on Svalbard. Obviously starting to be in the new s a lot more now since last February.

Interestingly I hadn't realized one of the two main cables into Svalbard was cut in January 2022. Also missed that another cable in the Baltic off the coast of Finland was cut this or last week

― anvil, Thursday, 12 October 2023 11:04 (two years ago)

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