The Ultima Thule

Journeys in America’s Northernmost Lands: a web anthology of the Alaskan Arctic

On the Edge of Ice, by Monica Devine

January 21st, 2012

On the Edge of Ice, by Monica Devine

| January 21, 2012

 ON THE  EDGE OF ICE As far north as one can travel in Alaska, a good 300 miles above the  Arctic Circle, a string of small coastal villages speckle the landscape on a vast backdrop of snow and sea and ice.  The villages, spanning an area of about 500 miles east to west, starve for [...]