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Could these be the shadows of one or more
dog sleds following old tracks through the snow on Svalbard,
the northernmost part of Norway?

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Unfortunately these are only medium resolution images id="fnref:2">#fn:2″ rel=”footnote 1 (which
disappear in Google Maps if you get too close), but zooming right
in on Google Earth certainly seems to add weight to the theory.

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Perhaps they’re travelling from the nearby http://www.eiscat.com/ EISCAT radar http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1028641 station to the
nearest town - the administrative centre of Svalbard,
Longyearbyen?

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Actually Longyearbyen is interesting too, as it’s the
world’s northernmost town^{#fn:1″
rel=”footnote 2} and therefore has the world’s
northernmost of quite a few things, including the world’s
most northern bank, ATM,
hospital, library, night
club, bus station, taxi
rank, http://www.spitsbergentravel.no tourist office,
supermarket, school and not not
forgetting http://www.polarriggen.com pub!

Oh yeah, they’ve also got the world’s most northern
permanent airport with scheduled flights -
Svalbard Airport.

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See Wikipedia for more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_sled dog sleds, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyearbyen Longyearbyen,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard Svalbard and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world’s_most_northern the
world’s most northern things.

Thanks to Harry.

1. I’m not sure if these images have appeared in
   this weekend’s image update or not, but I wasn’t previously
   aware of any coverage of this part of the world. #fnref:2″ rev=”footnote ↩

2. With 1000 people or more. Longyearbyen has 1800. #fnref:1″ rev=”footnote ↩

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