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aint_no_life_nowhere

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3. My dad spent a year at Thule

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 1, 2014, 12:48 AM

Feb 2014

back in the 1950s when he was an officer in the Air Force. He brought back photos of polar bears that came right up to the barracks. He found a clay bank with thousands of fossils of prehistoric fish and brought some back, some of which were of interest to paleontolgists. It made for great show-and-tell material at school when I was a little kid.

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Norway is NOT the capital of Sweden [View all] Major Nikon Jan 2014 OP

I've always wondered what it would be like to live in the Svalbard archipelago aint_no_life_nowhere Jan 2014 #1

I've been almost that far north Major Nikon Jan 2014 #2

My dad spent a year at Thule aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2014 #3

I didn't see any polar bear Major Nikon Feb 2014 #4

That is so cool Art_from_Ark Feb 2014 #7

Pack your lederhosen, boys. You're going to Norway Brother Buzz Feb 2014 #5

I had a professor from Finland. TheMightyFavog Feb 2014 #6