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Feb 21, 2015Explorer
Whittier, Alaska: Most of town's residents live in 1 apartment building
Only road to town is a 4-km, one-lane tunnel through a mountain
Isolation is a defining characteristic of life in the North.
For many residents, this means log cabins in the woods, long drives to metropolitan centres, or hiking on the tundra. But it's something entirely different for the 220 residents of Whittier, Alaska.
Read more in this Feb 2015 article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/whittier-alaska-most-of-town-s-residents-live-in-1-apartment-building
Only road to town is a 4-km, one-lane tunnel through a mountain
Isolation is a defining characteristic of life in the North.
For many residents, this means log cabins in the woods, long drives to metropolitan centres, or hiking on the tundra. But it's something entirely different for the 220 residents of Whittier, Alaska.
Read more in this Feb 2015 article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/whittier-alaska-most-of-town-s-residents-live-in-1-apartment-building
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