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Happy Tycoon - Chapter 445

Published at 29th of September 2021 01:38:20 PM


Chapter 445: 445

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Yang Jing and his team stayed in arlet for more than a week. Counting the time spent, it has been more than 20 days since their trip.

At the end of July, the Arctic Ocean has completely entered the warmest time of the year. At this time, the ice in the coastal area of the Arctic Ocean has melted, and a large number of glaciers have collapsed from Greenland and entered the Arctic Ocean to become icebergs.

Because the ice melts faster, the blue whale has been sailing at a speed of 10 knots in the sea area seven or eight kilometers away from the coastline. When it bypassed northern Greenland and entered the Greenland Sea, it was almost invisible because of the influence of the North Atlantic warm current.

Here, Captain Andre can safely and boldly increase the ship's speed to the normal cruising speed, and then go straight to langil, the capital of Svalbard Islands in northern Norway.

By the time the blue whale arrived in ranuel, it was three days after it left arlett.

Langil, located at 78 degrees and 13 minutes north latitude, is the capital of Svalbard Islands and is known as the northernmost city on the planet.

In fact, the title of "the northernmost city in the world" is still in dispute.

Unlike Ushuaia, Argentina, which is recognized as the "southernmost city in the world", the title of the northernmost city on the earth has been under debate.

What caused the most trouble were two cities not far away on the northern island of Norway, Hammerfest and honinswig.

Hammerfest claimed to be the "northernmost city in the world" as early as 200 years ago, and established many commemorative buildings intended to prove its status, such as the "northernmost sign" and "northernmost Hotel". It also issued relevant tourist souvenirs, prints and stamps, seizing the "public opinion guidance" of many books and magazines.

The title of "the northernmost city in the world" has brought a lot of benefits to this small city with less than 10000 people. Not only tourists come in droves, but also many "preferential policies" of the government have benefited it a lot. For example, the world's first street lamp using electricity is preferentially installed in this city, because everyone agrees that there is a three-month polar night in winter, which is the place where street lamps are most needed.

However, their neighbor, honinswig in the north corner, was obviously unconvinced. Your latitude in Hammerfest is 70 degrees and 40 minutes north latitude, while ours is 71 degrees north latitude. How can we say that we should be "the northernmost in the world"!

However, the Hammerfest people are justifiable. According to Norwegian law, over 5000 people can be called "cities". Honingswig has a total of 3300 people. It can only be called a small town, which is useless in the north.

Hammerfest's reason made the honinschwig people very dissatisfied, so in 1996, the honinschwig people declared themselves a "city", but it was declared invalid by the Norwegian government six months later. In desperation, the city council played the Huairou card. Hammerfest has made a lot of money because of oil processing. It should be generous and share some of the benefits of "the northernmost" to good neighbors.

Today, honinschweg has a bar known as the northernmost bar in the world and a tourist destination that "the world sees the northern lights first". Every summer, as many as 208000 tourists from various countries come by cruise ship to see the world's first sunrise and magnificent Arctic coastline, giving them a taste of the sweetness of "northernmost". However, they are still not satisfied, because Hammerfest has 250000 tourists every year.

In the face of the dispute between Hammerfest and honinswig over "the northernmost city in the world", longier in the far north and arlett in the far north moved a small Mazar to sit in the north, laughing and watching the two cities in the South beat their brains into dog brains for the title of "the northernmost city in the world".

Lanier and arlette, the little brothers, looked at Jin Jin interestingly, but they were silent.

Alte has no choice. Although it is the northernmost settlement in the world, Alte has self-knowledge. Alte, located at 82 degrees and 28 minutes north latitude, is definitely the northernmost human settlement on the planet in any way, but the settlement Yang Jing and they just left is too small and the environment is too bad.

Yang Jing, they have just left arlet for a few days, so they feel the most about the situation there.

To the north of arlet is the perennial frozen Arctic Ocean, and to the south is a swamp covered with ice and snow. For most of the year, it is covered with ice and snow, and the roads are indistinguishable. The rest of the days are muddy. Although there is a small airport, it can only take off and land dozens of planes every year, most of them are snow planes with only a few seats.

People there don't see many tourists all year round, and the residents are naturally not interested in the struggle for the "northernmost" that can't bring any benefits to themselves. They often talk about the town's nickname "hero town", because only heroes - ambitious explorers and persistent scientific researchers - dare to be isolated from the world Come to a place with vast ice and snow all year round.

To be honest, Yang Jing, who just left arlet, knew very well that arlet was not qualified to compete for the title of "the northernmost city in the world". There is not even a village. How can it be called "city"? Not to mention that it's useless even if it gets the title there. More than 99.99% of the people in the world can't get there!

As for another place eligible to compete for the title of "the northernmost city in the world", it is langil city where Yang Jing and his team are about to stop in Hong Kong.

Geographically speaking, langil, located at 78 degrees and 13 minutes north latitude, is undoubtedly much farther north than the two quarrelling neighbors in the south. And although the city has a population of only 1800 people, it is a city to the letter, and it is also a capital city. Therefore, no matter how you look at it, langil city is more qualified to win the title of "the northernmost city in the world".

However, it is a pity that although the city belongs to Norway, it was discovered by American longier when looking for coal mines. The proportion of Russian and Ukrainian residents is twice that of Norwegians. For this reason, although this town famous for Arctic scientific research has the northernmost coal mine in the world and not a small international reputation, in the eyes of Norwegians, this city is the most unqualified city to become the "northernmost city in the world".

Even his own country refused to admit it. However, Langer and arlet could only move a pony to Zha Yao to see the two cities in the South tearing each other apart.

However, although the Norwegians are unwilling to recognize the status of langil, this city is very famous all over the world. Otherwise, Captain Andre would not have set the second supply point on this voyage in this city.

Although langil city is not big, it has a wharf that can dock 10000 ton ships.

No way. Although langil was discovered by Icelanders as early as 1194, the harsh climate here makes it difficult for people to survive here. It was not until 1906 that American John Longyear discovered rich coal mines in this area that the city began to flourish.

It is safe to say that the city has developed relying on coal mines. Moreover, the swell coal mine in Lanier city ranks among the most productive coal mines in the world, which is very attractive to Europe under the background of industrialization. With the injection of US dollar capital, coal mines have blossomed everywhere in Svalbard Islands. Lured by high salaries, many miners from Norway, Russia and other countries have left their homes and come here to fight the cold and become the first Islanders.

With coal mines, it is natural to have a wharf to transport raw coal, so this 10000 ton wharf was formed.

After the blue whale docked steadily at the wharf, Yang Jing and Ge Ge led Da Bai off the ship.

It will take a whole day for the blue whale to replenish here. It will not leave here until tomorrow evening. Before that, Yang Jing and his family had more than 20 hours to visit the city.

After really entering the city, Yang Jing found that the long and narrow city came out of a valley. It is precisely because of the towering mountains on the north and south sides that the residents in the valley can resist the cold wind from the Arctic.

The city is very small, much smaller than nuke, which Yang Jing once visited. But the buildings here are as colorful and beautiful as Nuuk.

It is said that the reason why the houses here are of this color is that there are three months of extreme night in langil city from November to January of the next year. During this period, the whole city is plunged into darkness, so the outer walls of the houses here are painted with colorful colors to facilitate residents and tourists to identify in the dark.

Yang Jing's hotel is the best Radisson Hotel in the polar region of Spitsbergen island in longire. Like other buildings in the town, this hotel is also made of wood and is only two floors high.

The four-star hotel is located in the center of the small town 1.3 kilometers away from the wharf. Originally, the hotel wanted to send a car to pick up Yang Jing, but Yang Jing refused because there was Dabai. It's not far anyway. It's healthier to walk.

On the way from the wharf to the hotel, Yang Jing found that abandoned wooden cable lanes could be seen everywhere on the hillsides on both sides of the road.

These cable cars belong to Svalbard mining group, the largest enterprise in the small town. Before mechanization, these cable cars are used to transport coal from the mining area to the wharf.

Langyier city is now in the extreme daytime, which is the peak of tourism. When Yang Jing got off the ship, it was 8:30 p.m. local time, but there are still many tourists playing on the street.

Yang Jing and his party soon attracted the attention of many people, mainly because the white beside Yang Jing was so attractive. Although some people in Europe and America also keep polar bears as pets, such a big polar bear is really rare. Even if Longyear City, like Churchill in Canada, has many polar bears, and the city is also known as the "hometown of polar bears", it is rare to walk on the street with a wild polar bear.

So along the way, Yang Jing, Ge Ge and Da Bai got the highest attention





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