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Think it's cold in Swampscott today? Check out this fascinating account that Betty Holmes sent us about one of the coldest cities in the world.
From Betty Holmes I first learned about Baffin Island and the Eskimos in my fourth grade geography class. My nephew traveled to Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada which is located on the south coast of Baffin Island, at the top of Frobisher Bay. It is not quite within the Arctic circle, but the climate is Arctic and no trees grow there. My nephew was in Iqaluit in mid-April 2010. He wrote me about his trip. The city of Iqaluit, with a population of 6,699, is the coldest place Dan had been. This was once an American strategic air force base called Frobisher AFB, on Baffin Island in Canada. During World War II, Frobisher AFB was a refueling stop for planes on the way to Europe to support the war. And in 1955, Iqaluit housed the construction crews …
