And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
No trees on Svalbard. Too far north. Every peace of wood there is driftwood from the great rivers in Siberia. The same way eskimoes got wood for canoes and wood tools.
I guess he harvested every last tree.
ReplyDeleteRight! The wood had to be brought in by boat, I suspect.
DeleteI see the antenna, but where's the satellite dish?
ReplyDeleteNo trees on Svalbard. Too far north. Every peace of wood there is driftwood from the great rivers in Siberia. The same way eskimoes got wood for canoes and wood tools.
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DeleteI can't see where the cabin ends and the woodpile begins. I wonder what Ol' Remus would have made of it.
ReplyDeleteAre those uprights braces to reinforce the roof against snowload?
ReplyDeleteThis is "Bamsebu Hut," a trapper's-hut sometimes research station stop. Citizen Scientist and Hearts-in-the-Ice have included it in their expeditions.
ReplyDeleteThoughts are it was build for whalers, and best I can tell it is around Recherchefjorden.
A video that shows the hut and where the firewood comes from is at: https://vimeo.com/315700999