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Lost City of the Arctic Circle
Lost City of the Arctic Circle
Written By Mister Gu on Sunday, September 19, 2010 | 4:42 PM
One of the most mysterious ‘lost cities’ on the American continent is not in its Southern but in its Northern hemisphere. Even more baffling, it is in the region that is the most hostile to human life on this planet—inside the Arctic Circle, called Ipiutak. Ipiutak is near Point Hope, on the north coast of Alaska. It is on a vast, treeless tundra which is permanently frozen. One polar